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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

15. Survival of the Smartest?

Author : Kathryn E. Lane

Published in: Age of the Geek

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Lane analyzes current nerd/geek television series, contrasting the depiction of nerddom on The Big Bang Theory with The Great Indoors. In both series, viewers are seeing an evolution of the nerds depicted on-screen. Yet, CBS’s scheduling of the two series back-to-back illuminates a clear “generational divide” between nerds in their 30s and nerds in their 20s. The Great Indoors depicts three versions of “othered” nerd/geek characters in Clark, Mason, and Emma—what Eglash terms a “nerd network”—all of whom contrast with the lead character of Jack, with each representing a different evolution of now-established nerd stereotypes. With The Great Indoors’ “nerd network”, race, gender, and sexuality stereotypes of nerd/geeks are explored, and potentially exploded.

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Scorpion. Executive Produced by Danielle Woodrow, Danny Rose, Scooter Braun, Walter O’Brien, Heather Kadin, Justin Lin, Nicholas Wootton, Nick Santora, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci. 2014. CBS, Television.
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The Great Indoors. Produced by Chris Harris, Mike Gibbons. 2016. CBS, Television.
Wong, Y. Joel, Jesse Owen, Kimberly K. Tran, Dana L. Collins and Claire E. Higgins. “Asian American Male College Students’ Perceptions of People’s Stereotypes About Asian American Men.” Psychology of Men & Masculinity 13, no. 1 (2012): 75–88. doi: 10.​1037/​a0022800.
Metadata
Title
Survival of the Smartest?
Author
Kathryn E. Lane
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_15