Comments on: Time, Top Tens, and Tastes http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Church http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes/comment-page-1#comment-595 Church Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:17:17 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes#comment-595 The little detail of that chart that I love most is that the furries are at the bottom of the pecking order in everyone else's estimation, but at the top in their own. The little detail of that chart that I love most is that the furries are at the bottom of the pecking order in everyone else’s estimation, but at the top in their own.

]]> By: Jason Tocci http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes/comment-page-1#comment-590 Jason Tocci Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:26:41 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes#comment-590 When I did a class presentation on the first geek research paper I ever wrote (2005), I put that chart on a slide. Never again. Everyone wants to read every little detail, and at least half the room wants to ask what furries are. Also: Kristina Busse uses the chart to suggest a sort of <a href="http://flowtv.org/?p=109" rel="nofollow">fannish identity politics</a> (as part of explaining that there's a difference from normal/mundane/muggle fans and <i>fandom</i>, I think). When I did a class presentation on the first geek research paper I ever wrote (2005), I put that chart on a slide. Never again. Everyone wants to read every little detail, and at least half the room wants to ask what furries are.

Also: Kristina Busse uses the chart to suggest a sort of fannish identity politics (as part of explaining that there’s a difference from normal/mundane/muggle fans and fandom, I think).

]]> By: Church http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes/comment-page-1#comment-589 Church Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:50:11 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes#comment-589 Yeah, Lev's job is a thankless one. He's representing the culture of nerds to the muggles, so his tone isn't appreciated by many of the former, and his interests aren't by many of the latter. As for the fragmented nature of geek culture, this chart is the best summation that I have come across yet: http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif Yeah, Lev’s job is a thankless one. He’s representing the culture of nerds to the muggles, so his tone isn’t appreciated by many of the former, and his interests aren’t by many of the latter.

As for the fragmented nature of geek culture, this chart is the best summation that I have come across yet:
http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif

]]> By: Z. http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes/comment-page-1#comment-588 Z. Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:54:39 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/12/time-top-tens-and-tastes#comment-588 Sadly, Jason, this doesn't mark the first time poor Lev has run afoul of the "gaming public" for no real reason. (http://time-blog.com/nerd_world/2007/08/now_in_papervision.html) Sadly, Jason, this doesn’t mark the first time poor Lev has run afoul of the “gaming public” for no real reason. (http://time-blog.com/nerd_world/2007/08/now_in_papervision.html)

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