Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture 9780773552951
What the “triumph of the nerds” can tell us about the place of media in people’s lives. This book recentres our unders
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English Pages [277] Year 2018
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "What Is a Nerd?"
1 Talk Nerdy to Me: The Meaning of Geek Culture
2 Taking Geek Culture Seriously: A Practice-Theoretic Account
3 Values and Virtues: What Is Best in Life?
4 Careers: Boldly Going On
5 Making Communities from Mass Culture
6 Institutions: Building Worlds between Production and Consumption
7 The Limits of Participation
8 The Geek, the Bad, and the Ugly
Conclusion
Appendix: Participant Profiles
Notes
References
Index
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