[Air-L] Scholarly books on geek culture?

Shawna Kelly skkelly at uci.edu
Thu Nov 8 08:02:56 PST 2012


Nick asks a good question. Since it's a class on "deviance" I'd recommend
two good books: Mia Consolvo's Cheating and Doug Thomas' Hacker Culture.
Both books look at concepts of breaking rules and breaking norms within
facets of geek culture.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Nick Lalone <nick.lalone at gmail.com> wrote:


> What part of geek culture?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Sarah Michele Ford <ford at soc.umass.edu
> >wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> > A colleague asked me if I had any recommendations on an academic book on
> > geek culture that she could use in her deviance class. I told her I
> didn't
> > but that this list almost certainly would. Who wants to prove me right?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Sarah
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