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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"geek culture"”.
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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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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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Playing Pirates: The Construction of Shared Fantasy and Identity Performance in theRenaissance Festival Subculture
… identity expression and interactions in the subculture as a setting in which they can find meaningful interaction with others who share their social paradigm. Relevant findings can help us better understand identity performance, as well as how culture is constructed through interactions based on …