Recent content by Mark2512

Once again thanks to everyone who posted a comment and did the questionnaire, I got a lot of interesting insight that will definately help me when I come to writing my paper, actually, if anything I have too much information for my word limit, but thats always a good thing. In the end 55 people...

I think you make some good points. Whats interesting to me is that on the basic level gaming seems no different from any other hobby. Lets compare it to fishing for example, I'm sure anglers have their own terminology, celebrities, magazines, clubs, websites, forums etc however I think you'll...

This is an interesting point. Does someone belong to a subculture once they view themselves as a member of that subculture or alternatively when they are viewed by others as a member? Once again, in gaming and internet forums its difficult, if not impossible, to properly assess another gamer...

Good point, however just for the sake of argument you could say the same of every other subculture. Rock music was extremely popular in the 60s-70s however not everyone who listened to it would identify as a 'rocker'. Therefore, perhaps to be a gamer to don't simply have to play games or own a...

Ye, I quite happily refer to myself as a 'geek', I get a little bit annoyed if someone else calls me one, especially if they're not a 'geek' themselves and I don't know them. But as I got older and more mature I kind of just learnt to feel comfortable in my geekiness and not feel ashamed or...

Ye, I think to a large degree the use of gaming language makes up for the lack of practical style that is common in other subcultures. The idea of 'fashion' and style forms a pretty large part of subculture study, like the punks use of safety pins, ripped t-shirts, swastikas etc to deliberately...

Well I think a lot of that is fear of suddenly becoming mainstream. Many subcultures seem to have been 'diluted' by new comers as a result of the adoption of the original subcultures style or appearance. Emo is a particuarly well defined example, the 'style' and lifestyle of emos has been...

Well yeah thats a pretty good point. Something thats always interested me with subcultures is this idea of belonging and then the 'wannabe'. I think this concept is passing into the gaming subculture somewhat, especially with the increase in casual gamers and console playing. Older, more...

Hey, Gaming... is it a lifestyle, or merely a irrelevent past-time? Do websites like the escapist etc constitute a new type of gaming subculture? Are 'gamers', 'geeks', 'otakus' (whatever you want to call them) as well defined as any other the traditional subcultures like punks, goths...