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Exploring the pathologies of Japan's youth The Japan Times The evolution of otaku from violent pervert to trendy subculture phenomenon is instructive. What started as a pejorative term morphed into something "at the heart of Japanese cultural capital and identity." Here we learn that the male sociologists who ...

Life's 'Lowest Difficulty Setting': John Scalzi Explains Privilege to Nerds ColorLines magazine by Channing Kennedy | Print | Comment ( View ) Nerd culture — sci-fi and fantasy novels, movies, comic books, video games, conventions, and so on — has a complicated relationship with social justice. In some ways, speculative fiction is an ideal tool ... and more »

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Matthew McConaughey: I befriended outsiders Belfast Telegraph ... friends with the little dwarf in our school, friends with the nerd who sat on the front row. I would stand up for the little fat kid who everyone picked on," he told movie magazine Total Film. "I was always crossing sub-cultures and cliques. and more »

New Book Investigates the Wide, Wonderful World of LARP Wired (blog) Gilsdorf: Tell us why you wrote the book. Stark: Participatory culture has always fascinated me, and it doesn't get more participatory than LARP. I wanted to peel back the curtain on this hidden subculture and find out what made the LARPers tick.

At ROFLCon, Ushering the Internet Into Adulthood ThinkProgress By Alyssa Rosenberg on May 9, 2012 at 2:07 pm As part of a panel discussing academic study of Internet culture, Whitney Phillips of the University of Oregon talks about her work understanding troll culture. Trolls are people who post inflammatory ...