An Overview on Geeks and Geek Culture

Although geek culture is becoming popular it has not received deserved attention from social sciences. However, there is an increasing inclination of people to engage in cultures that have magical and heroic themes and can be connected to vital trends in broader cultures like narcissism as well as the edge between entertainment media and technology. Today, there are two basic goals in geek culture one is to validate and develop geek engagement in participation of some activities are represented in geek convention. The other is to examine and describe three geek culture theoretical accounts connected to culture trends. This refers to the desire for engagement hypothesis, belonging and fantasy migration hypothesis. Participating in geek culture is decided upon by various factors and these hypotheses are interconnected in their predictions.

So, geek culture can be differentiated by the behavior to contribute to a person’s own entertainment and escapism. It can be distinguished using some strategies of using some media interests to seek belonging and fulfill needs. To the extent that people contribute to geek culture shows reduced civic engagement and reduced real life goals engagements like raising a family or career aspirations which are not likely to be practical sources of esteem and praises and so are not rewarding to narcissists who seek geek culture activities. Because geek media deals with fantasy prowess and fantasy content they make people to engage in it to satisfy their entertainment desires.

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