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Vengeance Of The Nerds
#GamerGate pic.twitter.com/Zxl8MlPUav — Flea Mewrilah (@Flea) September 15, 2014 Writing in a NYT roundtable on the ascent of geek culture, Freddie accuses certain geeks of defensiveness, complacency,...
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Vengeance Of The Nerds, Ctd
You know that #Gamergate hashtag you've been seeing in your feeds? This is what it means: http://t.co/fXcVvSsPCZ pic.twitter.com/jaWZy8lyMI — CNN (@CNN) October 16, 2014 The controversy over violent,...
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Vengeance Of The Nerds, Ctd
#GamerGate: RT @Griies ~ pic.twitter.com/WG0cdzFzqE — Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) October 21, 2014 Readers won’t let go of the debate: As Arthur Chu artfully pointed out, the basic dynamic of...
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“Being A Nerd Is Not Supposed To Be A Good Thing”
A self-identified nerd writes: I think what a lot of the commentary on GamerGate misses is that Nerd culture is by nature an exclusionary thing, and all claims of Nerdom being mainstream are a...
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Vengeance Of The Nerds, Ctd
RT @Sargon_of_Akkad: @SabrinaLianne Here’s that montage of the ladies of #GamerGate and #NotYourShield pic.twitter.com/t1n2Nr2kwh — NotYourShieldProject (@NotYourShield) October 16, 2014 A few readers...
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“Being A Nerd Is Not Supposed To Be A Good Thing” Ctd
An “actual nerd” joins this reader in stating his case for true nerdom: Female nerds take a stand against the reader: He is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with this particular sordid...
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Chart Of The Day
Pew finds that men and women experience different sorts of online harassment: Jake Swearingen sees how “men, on the whole, report higher rates of less severe types of harassment (with the exception of...
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The Best Of The Dish Today
For late-breaking Dish coverage of the first confirmed case of Ebola in New York, follow the updates compiled by Bodenner below. For continued coverage of Gamergate, here’s some perspective from...
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“Being A Nerd Is Not Supposed To Be A Good Thing” Ctd
A reader writes, “I’m surprised no one has recommended the film Zero Charisma to the discussion – here’s the trailer”: Yet another reader responds to this nerd’s cri de coeur: I am nerdy, but not a...
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“Being A Nerd Is Not Supposed To Be A Good Thing” Ctd
The owner of the above title-quote follows up: Hey, I’m the guy who wrote the thing that pissed a bunch of women off. In my defense, I didn’t mean to suggest that women CAN’T be nerds, and when I said...
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The End Of Gamer Culture?
Many readers have warned me not to dip a toe into the gamergate debate, which, so far, we’ve been covering through aggregation and reader-input. And I’m not going to dive headlong into an extremely...
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The End Of Gamer Culture? Ctd
Just a short note because the last sentence in the post is being misunderstood, which is my fault, because I wrote it. Here’s the context: That piece was not so much “covering the phenomenon” as...
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The Best Of The Dish This Weekend
And you thought I was exaggerating about the rise and rise of sponsored content: As The Times’ readership goes mobile, the publication will phase out display ads in favor of native advertising....
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New Feminism; Old Moralism
Anita Sarkeesian had a lovely piece in the NYT yesterday, explaining why she is happy that “gamer culture” as it once was is a much diluted phenomenon. Its points are as valid as the foul attacks on...
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The Best Of The Dish Today
Another note on the swift descent of ethical journalism. One concern I’ve repeatedly voiced is that at some point, corporations will simply dispense with “sponsored content” on existing publications...
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A Star And Her Craft
Ben McGrath has a long and fascinating profile of Sasha Hostyn, aka Scarlett, “the most accomplished woman in the young history of electronic sports,” namely Starcraft II: Some context from McGrath:...
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