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Mapping Out Research on MMOs: why researching video games matters
Many graduate students, professors and researchers have been studying MMOs (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) in recent years. They have approached various games and explored very diverse questions...
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Advice for students / 7: So, you want to get a master’s degree?
You’re interested in a topic and you’d like to start a master’s degree to be able to explore it. Great! But where to begin? Before you start filling out applications for universities, there are two...
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I’m taking a class with 7000+ people
And I love it. You’ve heard of MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games) like WOW or Eve Online. But do you know what a MOOC is? It’s a Massive Open Online Course in which thousands of...
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Are You Game? Not All Screens Lead to the Evils of Gaming Addiction
This article is a contribution by Jennifer Lewis. We humans are a complicated lot. On one hand, we like to probe mysteries and strive to solve puzzles but on the other, we do like to be able to put...
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Advice for Students / 8: Finding a Supervisor
This post is the second of a series of two about defining a master’s degree research project and finding a supervisor. Read the first part about initial steps to follow here. Also have a look at...
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Let’s get acquainted
Greetings loyal readers and newcomers! I have been AFK (away from keyboard) for a while, as I was busy writing, then presenting a paper in Finland, among other things, but I am back with some great...
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Geek Girls: I need your help!
For almost a year now, I have been paying close attention to women’s experiences in geek culture: I have tried to map out their involvement in this (sub)culture, to obtain data about demographics, and...
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Just to Vex and Be Vexed in Return
I suppose it’s my turn to introduce myself. My name is Nick Mizer, and I’m a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at Texas A&M University, where I’m working on a dissertation analyzing the...
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One Year and Counting!
Birthday Cake by Will Clayton on Flickr A little over a year ago (on September 12th 2012, to be precise), I embarked on the blogging journey and created The Geek Anthropologist blog. Since then, it has...
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Geek Girl Survey Update
Greetings geeklings! I will soon finish compiling data from the Geek Girl Survey I announced last August! Thanks to everyone who answered my call or shared it! I have been swamped with emails from...
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”Keep Your Politics Out of My Video Games”
”Can race relations really be an off-topic taboo for dissecting or discussing the game when the game itself keeps bringing it up?” asks Christopher Franklin Errant Signal released a wonderful video...
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Spot Check 14: Gamer Evangelism
As promised, here is the most recent episode of Spot Check, the video series documenting my dissertation research into tabletop gaming. New episodes will be posted every Thursday. If you’d like to...
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Spot Check Flashback #1: The Mythic Everyday
In this installment of Spot Check Flashbacks we’re going back to the beginning. This is the first episode of the series, recorded when my Kickstarter was in full swing. If you want to skip past the...
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AAA Paper: From Geek to Chic: A Case Study in Identity and Consumerism
This week, we are introducing a second paper from the Geek Anthropology session which was part of the 2013 AAA annual meeting program. To view the first video, click here. This week’s paper is From...
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The (Fake) Geek Girl Project / 1
You may read the foreword to this series, As Always, it Started With Star Trek: A Study On Geek Girls. For a little over two years now, geek culture has been tormented with a raging debate, that of the...
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AAA Paper: When Tactics Become Strategies
This week, we are introducing a third paper from the Geek Anthropology session which was part of the 2013 AAA annual meeting program. You may also view the first and the second videos. Once again,...
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The (Fake) Geek Girl Project / 2
You may read the foreword to this series, As Always, it Started With Star Trek: A Study On Geek Girls and the first part which offers an overview of this series and of the methodology used in this...
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The (Fake) Geek Girl Project / 3: Who Cares?
You may read the foreword to this series, As Always, it Started With Star Trek: A Study On Geek Girls, as well as parts 1 and 2. For a little over two years now, geek culture has been tormented with a...
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The (Fake) Geek Girl Project / 4: Why this debate, and why now?
This is the second to last installment of this series. You may read the foreword to this series, As Always, it Started With Star Trek: A Study On Geek Girls, as well as parts 1, 2 and 3. Why did the...
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Seeing Is Believing: Visual Culture and Ancient Aliens
For centuries, humans have stared at the heavens, attempting to scry a pattern from the stars scattered across the night sky. As a species, it is my belief, and the belief of other anthropologists like...
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