Wildmen on the Cyberfrontier: The Computer Geek as an Iteration in the American Wildman Lore Cycle |
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Authors: | Joshua Blu Buhs |
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Abstract: | This paper argues that the image of the computer geek that took shape around the turn of the twenty-first century borrowed elements from earlier American constructions of the wildman. In particular, the geek, like prior wildmen, compressed ideas about four conflicting values: liberty and danger, authenticity and fakery. |
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