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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Geek"”.
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Legendary Days – a novel, and the Aspects of Geek Culture in Fiction
… thesis explores the dialogue between fiction and geek culture. It seeks to understand the definitions and uses of the terms ‘geek’, ‘nerd’ and ‘otaku’ over time. I look for points of commonality and how they have been used in texts since the seventeenth century. After this initial exploration, I …
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Cosplay & the geek: the tension between creativity, inclusion, & gatekeeping in cosplay. What types of gatekeeping do cosplayers experience?
… outside it, who may identify with the wider geek subculture.
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"""Are you a geek like my mom, or do you like to party?"" Explanatory bias may precede belief in causal essence"
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-04-20 at 14:14.
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Heike, Jike, Chuangke : creativity in Chinese technology community
… topics discussed in Jike media, or Chinese geek media, using text mining (a type of data mining) methods including co-occurrence analysis, TF-IDF analysis and topic models (based on LDA); this thesis also includes a field study of Chuangke, seeing how Chinese Chuangke teachers build …
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Η "φυσική" του Νικηφόρου Θεοτόκη σταθμός στην επιστημονική σκέψη τον 18ο αιώνα
… as a whole the Newtonian physics in the major geek area. The main sources used by Theotokis were books written by Peter van Musschenbroek and Abbe Nollet. There is a detailed analysis of "stichia phisikis" and an investigation of the social and educational conditions of the period is tried. At …
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Exploring the biographies of high-achieving students: how to social environments and classroom experiences enable them to identify as 'good at maths'?
… and mathematicians as socially incompetent ‘geeks’. Therefore, identifying with mathematics can conflict with femininity and sociality. Furthermore, mathematics is often perceived as a subject that puts intelligence, or lack thereof, on public display, inducing anxiety, shame, and a …
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Playing Pirates: The Construction of Shared Fantasy and Identity Performance in theRenaissance Festival Subculture
This study examines how the renaissance festival setting offers a context for non-normative identity performance within a carnivalesque setting in which the construction of shared fantasy is the basis of social processes. It also asks how what social forces, such as popular media’s romanticized …