May The Fourth Be with You!
How do anthropologists celebrate May the 4th? By reading anthropological articles of course! Head over to Anthropology News to read May…
Posts Tagged 'geek'
Game of Spoilers: A Spoiler-Free Investigation into the Role of Experience in Fandom
Fans maintain a careful balance between individually-experienced and community-accumulated information that is important for both the fan’s independent enjoyment and their fandom membership. Spoilers disrupt this balance, and by investigating spoilers we can understand it better.
Fan Activism and the 501st Legion: Be the Change You Wish to see in the Galaxy
As geek culture becomes more validated and expanded by wider recognition, fan communities have more influence and power on the larger social stage. This is especially meaningful when fan communities direct their engagement and passion outward and become fan activists.
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
What’s in store for The Geek Anthropologist in 2016? And where have I been?
Storytelling and Worldbuilding in The Force Awakens
As Star Wars moves forward, it is drawing larger audiences into what the now-apocryphal Expanded Universe (EU) stories have been doing with the world for a long time: expanding the horizons, filling in gaps, and doing the other work necessary for worldbuilding. And here’s the thing: we’ve spent a lot of time studying stories, and not that much time studying worlds.
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