The latest issue of the graduate communication studies journal that I helped found, Stream: Culture/Politics/Technology, has been posted. It has the proceedings of this year’s Nelson Conference, where I presented a paper called “Subculture Theory and the Fetishism of Style.”
The article contains a rough and ready introduction to the “post-subcultures” critique of the Birmingham School [...]
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My name is Benjamin Woo. I am currently working on a PhD dissertation on nerd culture in the School of Communication, SFU. In my research and teaching I am interested in the cultural environment constituted by consumer capitalism and in the conditions of possibility for new kinds of communities constructed from the raw materials provided by the cultural industries. -
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