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Getting a Life Roundup

Getting a Life Roundup

Benjamin Woo
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My latest, Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture, is the subject of two nice reviews, one by Anthony Burton in Quill & Quire and one by Ian McGillis in The Montreal Review of Books. But you don't have to take their word for it…

The Walrus has posted an excerpt from the book's final chapter, in which I explore the darker side of geek culture: "When Did Geek Culture Get so Angry?" 

Benjamin Woo
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Benjamin Woo

Benjamin Woo is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He holds a PhD in communication studies from Simon Fraser University and is the author of several academic articles on comics and their fans. As a younger man, Ben aspired to be a cartoonist. He submitted several embarassing pitches to Marvel and DC while in elementary school, drew editorial cartoons and a newspaper strip in college, joined a webcomics collective, and published stories in The SPX Anthology and You Ain't No Dancer vol. 2 before “retiring” from comics to follow the much more secure career path of the academic researcher.

Media Fandom Syllabus

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Ottawa Launch for Getting a Life

Ottawa Launch for Getting a Life