[Air-L] nerd culture and new media

[Mark Chen]

Henry Jenkins posted about MC Lars' song "Ahab" and the nerdcore movement on
his blog recently. Maybe he'd be a good place to start?

mark

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Sarita Yardi <sarita.yardi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Does anyone know of any recent research about how new media relates to
> nerd culture stereotypes? There are a large number of very recent
> books and news articles about this topic, and some claim that being
> nerdy is going mainstream. Presumably they mean it's not necessarily
> defined by computers and A/V and pocket protectors anymore, but video
> games and MMORPG's and MySpacers and other activities that may break
> the traditional white male nerd stereotype. Computer science is still
> as nerdy as ever, a perceived by kids, but do we know if new media
> studies or cultural studies indicates different trends in other areas?
> Speculation welcome, even if you don't know of any research being done on
> it.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Sarita
>
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