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Getting a Life - The Social Worlds of Geek Culture (Hardcover)
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Getting a Life - The Social Worlds of Geek Culture (Hardcover)
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"Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships
have become inescapable features of today's pop-culture landscape,
and the people we used to deride as "nerds" or "geeks" have ridden
their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. It seems
it's finally hip to be square. Yet these conventionalized
representations of geek culture typically ignore the real people
who have invested time and resources to make it what it is. Getting
a Life recentres our understanding of geek culture on the everyday
lives of its participants, drawing on fieldwork in comic book
shops, game stores, and conventions, including in-depth interviews
with ordinary members of the overlapping communities of fans and
enthusiasts. Benjamin Woo shows how geek culture is a set of
interconnected social practices that are associated with popular
media. He argues that typical depictions of mass-mediated
entertainment as something that isolates and pacifies its audiences
are flawed because they do not account for the conversations,
relationships, communities, and identities that are created by
engaging with the products of mass culture. Getting a Life combines
engaging interview material with lucid interpretation and a clear,
interdisciplinary framework. The volume is both an accessible
introduction to this contemporary subculture and an exploration of
the ethical possibilities of a life lived with media.
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