Comments on: Nearly-mid-October Link Drop http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/10/nearly-mid-october-link-drop Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Church http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/10/nearly-mid-october-link-drop/comment-page-1#comment-323 Church Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:51:17 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/10/nearly-mid-october-link-drop#comment-323 Interesting article in the UofWI's paper about the 'rise' of the nerd. I think he's half right here http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/665 His distinction is that 'nerds' are just becoming more visible, rather than more accepted. Probably true, as far as that goes. But there's also elements of nerdiness that are becoming mainstreamed, just because the general public has to deal with things (online facetime, etc) that were once the sole domain of the nerds. Interesting article in the UofWI’s paper about the ‘rise’ of the nerd. I think he’s half right here
http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/665

His distinction is that ‘nerds’ are just becoming more visible, rather than more accepted. Probably true, as far as that goes. But there’s also elements of nerdiness that are becoming mainstreamed, just because the general public has to deal with things (online facetime, etc) that were once the sole domain of the nerds.

]]> By: Video Games » Nearly-mid-October Link Drop http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/10/nearly-mid-october-link-drop/comment-page-1#comment-320 Video Games » Nearly-mid-October Link Drop Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:21:40 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/10/nearly-mid-october-link-drop#comment-320 [...] cory wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGames are defended as being intended for adults by Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal, who further expounds on this in a post on “The problem (and the danger) of the continued infantilization of video games” (part 1). [...] [...] cory wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGames are defended as being intended for adults by Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal, who further expounds on this in a post on “The problem (and the danger) of the continued infantilization of video games” (part 1). [...]

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