Cultural Sociology vs Videogames: are We Gamer-Geeks a (Middle-Class) Subculture?
What do we mean when we call something a “subculture”? Most people think of weird and wonderful fashion and/or music…
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Scholarly Hipsters, Scholarly Geeks, Part 1: Definitions
By Nick Mizer Over at the Savage Minds blog, Alex Posecznick has been writing a thought-provoking series on “Anthroplogists as Scholarly Hipsters.”
The (Fake) Geek Girl Project / 3: Who Cares?
You may read the foreword to this series, As Always, it Started With Star Trek: A Study On Geek Girls, as well as parts 1 and 2.
For a little over two years now, geek culture has been tormented with a raging debate, that of the “fake” geek girl. This debate has divided geeks between those who reinforce the notion that some women pretend to be geeks in order to attract the attention of men, and those who contest it. Since late 2012, I have been analyzing this debate and following the changes it brought forth in geek culture.
AAA Paper: From Geek to Chic: A Case Study in Identity and Consumerism
This week, we are introducing a second paper from the Geek Anthropology session which was part of the 2013 AAA annual meeting program. To view the first video, click here.
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Geek Girl Survey Update
Greetings geeklings!
I will soon finish compiling data from the Geek Girl Survey I announced last August! Thanks to everyone who answered my call or shared it! I have been swamped with emails from enthusiastic geek girls of all ages, and I am delighted to have obtained a lot more data than I originally expected. So many people made Portal references that I’m considering creating a new slogan for this blog: something like ”For science”. It’s a work in progress.
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