Almost five years ago, comedian Patton Oswalt wrote an article for Wired called “Wake Up, Geek Culture, Time to Die.” It was equal parts eulogy for the romanticized nerd he once was, and a lament for ...

Plenty has been said about the mainstreaming of geek culture – I reference it all the time, myself – and it’s easy to see why. Superhero movies everywhere. Grown men and women in business-casual ...

Zeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor of sociology at the School of Information at University of North Carolina, and a faculty associate at Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is ...

Is the geek-culture bubble bursting? For years, "geek culture" has been on the rise. What was once the safe haven of the outsider became more and more popular until geek culture effectively became ...

The 97th Academy Awards are upon us, but will any geek-oriented movies land any big wins this year? The 97th Academy Awards will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2nd, awarding accolades to films released ...

We would not want to run our universities like tech companies. The culture, values and norms of academia stand—if anything—in opposition to those of tech. Rather than “move fast and break things,” our ...

If you had called me those names 15 years ago, I probably would have been a little offended, but not so anymore. Nowadays, mainstream culture has welcomed and even celebrated “the geek.” Terms like ...

Dweebs. Nerds. Geeks. No matter what you called "the people who knew too much about weird things" back in the day, well, their reputation is changing. These days, the fodder weirdos and the nerds ...

There was a time when liking video games was seen as some sort of abnormality. Once, knowing one’s way around a console controller was considered an affliction worthy of being attacked with virgin ...

'Geek Girls' director Gina Hara took four years to find women who would speak out about the secretive female geek community. She tells CNET how she did it. Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET ...

Last week, the venerable media tome Entertainment Weekly published a list titled 20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture. As with any list of this kind, everyone with an opinion and a keyboard will ...