Book chapter
Nerdfighteria by Numbers
Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media, p.48
University of Iowa Press
11/15/2020
Abstract
For all its common interests, Nerdfighteria is a complex entity with a multifaceted composition. Demographics, though admittedly imperfect, offer ideas about how Nerdfighteria is constituted beyond the abstractions of its unifying interests and ideals. Those figures can be derived, either directly or indirectly, from the media that foster its conversations and connections. Considering the audiences for these sites of creation enables us to understand that media that bring Nerdfighters together are not simply echoes of one another and that one Nerdfighter, however prominent or interesting, does not define them all. As Peter Boot has written about a set of Dutch
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Nerdfighteria by Numbers
- Creators
- Jennifer Burek Pierce
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media, p.48
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/15/2020
- Academic Unit
- Library and Information Science; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984003179502771
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