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How Was the Nerd or Geek Born? Read chapter Read first chapter

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. A Nerd, a Geek, and a Hipster Walk into a Bar

Author : Jessica Bodner

Published in: Age of the Geek

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Bodner, in an experimental, auto-ethnographic study, examines the often confused but separate identities of nerds, geeks, and hipsters. She focuses, initially, on what it takes to be a nerd or geek, then explores possible personal delineations between the two identities. Bodner then walks the nerd, geek, normal, and hipster into two bars and explores what happens when these four groups interact. Recounting tales of bigotry, exclusion, and the blurred lines of social acceptance, the chapter allows the reader a chance to examine their own experiences and reasons why a social group no one likes is more accepted than others.

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Literature
Airwolf, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Stupid Geeks.
Big Red, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Personal Interview.
Bishop, John H, Matthew Bishop, Michael Bishop, Lara Gelbwasser, Shanna Green, Erica Peterson, Anna Rubinsztaj, and Andrew Zuckerman. 2004. “Why We Harass Nerds and Freaks: A Formal Theory of Student Culture and Norms.” Journal of School Health 74 (7).
Bucholtz, Mary. 1999. ““Why Be Normal?”: Language and Identity Practices in a community of nerd girls.” Language in Society 28: 203–223.
Cohen the Barbarian, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Personal Interview.
Cross, Tracy. 2005. “Nerds and Geeks: Society’s Evolving Stereotypes of Our Students with Gifts and Talents.” Gifted Child Today, Fall: 26–27.
Deadpool, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Hipster chicks.
Eglash, Ron. 2002. “Race, Sex, and Nerds: From Black Geeks to Asian American Hipsters.” Social Text 20, no. 2_71 (Summer 2002): 50–64.
Egon, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Hipsters Ruin Everything.
Ethel, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Big Red.
Galahad, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2015. Green.
Hipster Chick, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2015. Artisanal Ice.
Hollingworth, Leta. 1936. “The Terman Classes at Public School 500.” Journal of Educational Sociology 86–90.
Imp, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Where You Belong.
Jones, Todd. 1996. “The Dumb Jock and the Science Nerd.” The Humanist, September/October: 44–45.
Kendall, Lori. 2011. ““White and Nerdy”: Computers, Race and the Nerd Stereotype.” Journal of Popular Culture 44 (3): 505–523.
Kinney, David. 1993. “From Nerds to Normals: The Recovery of Identity among Adolescents from Middle School to High School.” Sociology of Education 66: 21–40.
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Moffat, Stephen. 2010—Current. Sherlock. Produced by BBC.
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Normal, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2015. Personal Interview.
Nugent, Benjamin. 2008. American Nerd: The Story of my People. New York: Scribner.
———. 2008. “It’s all Geek to Me.” Psychology Today, July/August: 39–40.
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Rentzsch, Katrin, Astrid Schutz, and Michela Schroder-Abe. 2011. “Being Labeled Nerd: Factors that Influence the Social Acceptance of High-Achieving Students.” Journal of Experimental Education 79: 143–168.
Samus, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Hipsters Ruin Everything.
Scheibe, Kevin, James McElroy, and Paula Morrow. 2009. “Object Language and Impression Management.” Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, April: 130–131.
Shaman, interview by Jessica Bodner. 2013. Personal Interview.
ThunderCats. 1985–1989. Television. Produced by Warner Brothers.
Yu, Johnny. 2007. “Looking Inside Out: A Sociology of Knowledge and the Ignorance of Geekness.” Human Architecture: Journal of Self-Knowledge 2: 41–50.
Metadata
Title
A Nerd, a Geek, and a Hipster Walk into a Bar
Author
Jessica Bodner
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Age of the Geek

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-65743-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-65744-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65744-8_2