[Air-L] Special Issue: The Lonely Nerd: Cultural representations of nerds around the world

[Joyojeet Pal]

Please pardon my addition, one exception here is the nerd / geek in
cultures where that is looked on positively, work has shown how the geek is
shown as masculine, (marriageable!), responsible, and one whose voice
should be taken seriously in society in India. Ironically, one of the most
used professions on profile texts on Twitter in India of ultra-nationalists
is "engineer"

Anyways, here is an article on the gendered aspects of that.
Women as Software Engineers in Indian Tamil Cinema
<http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/women_as_software_engineers_in_indian_tamil_cinema.pdf>


On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 8:47 AM Johnson, Gareth via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We're delighted to announce the publication the latest special issue of
> Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, this time in
> collaboration with Scholars at Oxford and SOAS. The issue is a celebration
> and exploration of 'the lonely nerd' trope from around the world in various
> media and cultural settings. Direct access and table of contents below.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Gareth
>
> Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal
> Volume 9 No 3 (2022) – Special Issue Lonely Nerd
> https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3
> Table of Contents
> Gareth J Johnson. Going Where My Heart Will Take Me: Editorial, Volume 9,
> Part 3. pp. i-xii. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.1186.
> Filippo Cervelli & Benjamin Schaper. Socially Inept?: The perceived
> loneliness of nerds. pp. 1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.946
> .
> Benjamin Schaper. Conquering the Meatspace: The lonely nerd in David
> Fincher’s The Social Network (2010) and Baran bo Odar’s Who Am I (2014).
> pp. 11-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.866.
> Janée Burkhalter. ‘Gus, don’t be the comma in Earth, Wind & Fire’:
> Understanding Psych’s (sometimes) lonely blerd Burton Guster. pp. 30-45.
> https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.869.
> Alena Cicholewski: ‘A place where everybody is a legendary hero… and a
> total dork’: Representing the American nerd community as an antidote to
> loneliness in G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel Comics (2014-2019). pp. 46-61.
> https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.861.
> Sharon Coleclough. So Many Ways to be an Outsider: ‘Nerdism’ and ethnicity
> as signifiers of otherness. pp. 62-83. DOI:
> https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.859.
> Rebecca Lewis. The Simultaneity of Loneliness and Popularity in Dear Evan
> Hansen. pp. 84-103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.864.
> Daniele Durante. From Misfit to Guide: Toward a corrective depiction of
> Otaku and Hikikomori in Japanese videogame Persona 5. pp. 104-123. DOI:
> https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.854.
> Natalia Rumak. Sherlock and Shārokku: ‘Nerdy’ detectives in the West and
> in the East. pp. 124-144. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.860.
> Kwasu David Tembo. Social and Spatial Representations of the Nerd in
> Donnie Darko. pp. 145-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.917.
> Carolin Fleischer-Heininger. Loneliness as the New Human Condition in
> Murakami Ryū's In za miso sūpu: Otaku-ness, space, violence and sexuality.
> pp. 162-184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.893.
> Christopher Smith: Consumable Bodies, Consumable Self: The queer potential
> of otaku subjectivity in Kio Shimoku’s Genshiken. pp. 185-202. DOI:
> https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.855.
> Filippo Cervelli. Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in
> Summer Wars. pp. 203-225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.887.
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