This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the mediafilm, TV, YouTube, Twitter, fictionthat often defines daily lives, the contributors interrogate what it means to be labeled a nerd or geek. While the nerd/geek that is so easily recognized now is assuredly a twenty-first century construct, an examination of the terms history brings a greater understanding of their evolution. From sports to slasher films, Age of the Geek establishes a dialogue with texts as varied as the depictions of nerd or geek stereotypes.
Chapter 1: How Was the Nerd or Geek Born?
Section I: What Did You Call Me?: Defining Geekdom
Chapter 2: A Nerd, A Geek, and a Hipster Walk Into a Bar&
Chapter 3: Mediagasms, Ironic Nerds, and Mainstream Geeks: A Multi-Methodological
Ideographic Cluster Analysis of and on Twitter
Chapter 4: Changing Faces: Exploring Depictions of Geeks in Various Texts
Section II: In or Out?: Defending Nerddom
Chapter 5: Geek Metafiction: Nerds, Footnotes, and Intertextuality
Chapter 6: Ich Bin Ein Nerd!: Geek Identity in Insider and Outsider Media
Chapter 7: Geek Is the New Jock: The Relationship Between Geek Culture and Sports
Chapter 8: Geeking Out and Hulking Out: Towards an Understanding of Marvel Fan Communities
Section III: I Saw It on TV: Depictions of Other Nerd/Geek Stereotypes on Television<
Chapter 9: How Is It Okay to be a Black Nerd?
Chapter 10: That Geek Look: Beauty and the Female Geek Body
Chapter 11: Modern Nerlc¨
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