{"id":53098,"date":"2019-01-17T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=53098"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:39","slug":"carletons-author-meets-readers-to-discuss-the-social-worlds-of-geek-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carletons-author-meets-readers-to-discuss-the-social-worlds-of-geek-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创\u2019s Author Meets Readers to Discuss the Social Worlds of Geek Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n 杏吧原创\u2019s Author Meets Readers to Discuss the Social Worlds of Geek Culture\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

杏吧原创 University\u2019s Benjamin Woo, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication<\/a>, will discuss the real people in comic book shops, game stores and conventions behind the mass phenomenon of geek culture at an upcoming Author Meets Readers event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woo is the author of the recently published book Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When<\/strong>: Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
\nWhere<\/strong>: Irene\u2019s Pub, 885 Bank Street, Ottawa
\nInfo<\/strong>: This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media are invited to attend the event.
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\nWoo is the director of the Comic Cons Research Project and an expert on contemporary \u201cgeek\u201d or \u201cnerd\u201d subculture. Getting a Life<\/em> is his third book. Woo will be joined by Neil Gerlach, associate professor in the Department of Sociology<\/a> and program director for the Bachelor of Global and International Studies<\/a> at 杏吧原创, and Kim Hoang, a Montreal-based cartoonist, game designer and facilitator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture<\/em> considers the real people who have invested time and resources to make geek culture what it is. Drawing on fieldwork in comic book shops, game stores and conventions, and interviews with participants in these subcultures, Woo shows how geek culture is a set of interconnected social practices associated with popular media. He argues that depictions of mass-mediated entertainment as something that isolates its audiences are flawed because they do not account for the conversations, relationships, communities, and identities that are created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

杏吧原创 Author Meets Readers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Author Meets Readers invites 杏吧原创 students, faculty and the community to join an informal discussion on new books published by members of the Faculty of Public Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The schedule of Author Meets Readers events for the Winter 2019 term is available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Media Contact
\n<\/strong>Steven Reid
\nMedia Relations Officer
\n杏吧原创 University
\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718
\n613-265-6613
\nSteven_Reid3@杏吧原创.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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