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So Many Ways to be an Outsider: ‘Nerdism’ and ethnicity as signifiers of otherness

COLECLOUGH, Sharon (2022) So Many Ways to be an Outsider: ‘Nerdism’ and ethnicity as signifiers of otherness. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 9 (3). ISSN 2053-9665

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The concept of the nerd and loneliness is an interesting one when we consider the idea of what ‘outsider’ status means and how it is communicated within popular culture. It is important to note that being identified as a nerd does not necessarily align with being lonely or holding outsider status as a negative quality. Indeed, within the mainstream Americanised evolution of the nerd we see the development of someone who although considered ‘strange’ or ‘odd’ and at times ‘other’ by their peers does have value and finds their place within the group, nerd becomes in these circumstances a shorthand for socially awkward rather than a true outsider.

Item Type: Article
Faculty: School of Digital, Technologies and Arts > Film and Media
Depositing User: Sharon COLECLOUGH
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2022 14:03
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2023 11:04
URI: https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/7379

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