I’m excited to officially announce (officially!) that I’ve been awarded the 2013 John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies by the International Comic Arts Forum. I’ll be giving the Lent Award lecture at this year’s ICAF at the University of…
There’s a new issue of the audience and reception studies journal Participations out. It’s a monster, and among its many special sections is one on the audiences of comics. I have an article called “Understanding Understandings of Comics: Reading and…
Further, to assume, as management often does, that people will only work well for rewards, rather than doing a good job for its own sake, is demeaning, and fails to respect their dignity. It overestimates their dependence on others as…
Hi, remember me? Ben … Woo? I have been a shamefully neglectful blogger over the last several months. My excuse is that I was buckling down / swotting up to finish writing my dissertation and prepare for my defence.
Thanks to thirty years of “Revenge of the Nerds” and “geek chic” headlines, we all “know” that computers, the Internet, and successful sci-fi, fantasy, and comic-book movies have made geeks chic. We all “know” that we should be nice to nerds because someday we’ll be working for one. Indeed, we all “know” that *nerd* and *geek* are just meaningless labels because everyone’s a geek now, right?