Geek

A geek (term English deciding or according to the countries) is a stereotype describing an impassioned person, even obsessed, by a precise field, generally data processing. The type even of the geek has a scientific profile and is set on superhéros and science fiction.

Origins

In the beginning, in English the term meant “fada”, that is to say ic variation Argot of “insane”, “cretin”. Initially Péjoratif ─ its homograph appoints a clown of carnival ─ it is now asserted by certain people. " At the beginning, the term comes from American freak , " monster of foire" , explains David Peyron, carrying out a thesis in sociology on the culture geek. In the colleges, they was the put intellos side. Intellos in sciences and new technologies. As they were insulated, they took refuge in imaginary worlds. " The term is close to the student's slang whodunnit (" polarisé").

The Média S then popularized this term which would indicate rather today a accro with the New technologies - not Péjoratif - what is relatively far away from the original definition. The term Geek thus has several definitions, but same the etymology.

“Geek Meetings”

It is difficult to fix the limit between a meeting which one can describe as Geek or a simple meeting of amateurs. There still, only the idea that the participants retain some can make the difference. By generalization, the qualified demonstrations of meetings Geeks treat topics technological, SF or associated. However, the Geek is often dissociated by an intense use of acronyms, and the transformation of products into personified jokes (typically, a bad data-processing product will be used as reference to any failure, whatever the field, ex: Windows Millenium), the only comprehensible whole by the group to which it belongs.

  • Without entering in detail, meetings of the Free software, which they are local or general are accepted like gatherings of Geeks .

  • meetings of plays multi-players of all kinds, demonstrations of plays, presentations or data-processing sales of new handsets.
  • more generally meetings with strong data-processing presence, than it is installation, programming, etc
  • the gatherings of roleplays life size or related to medieval fantasy .
  • to note the recent appearance of the expression Gok , who indicates the Gothic geeks . (See Gothic Movement)

The “Geek Syndrome”

December 9th, 2001, an article signed Steve Silberman in Wired : '' The Geek Syndrome '' announced a very strong frequency of Autisme and Syndrome To sprinkle among the children of the Informaticien S of the Silicon Valley (the USA). The expression remained, especially for the people reached of the syndrome To sprinkle.

The geek in the fiction

Cartoons

Webcomics

  • Geek' S World, of Salagir
  • Megatokyo, of Fred Gallagher
  • Penny Arcade
  • PvP Online de Scott R. Kurtz
  • Applegeeks of Mohammad Haque and Ananth Panagariya
  • To use Friendly of J.D. " Illiad" General Frazer
  • Protection Fault de Jeffrey T. Darlington
  • Later… of NeoGrifteR
  • Ctrl+Alt+Del de Tim " Absath" The worst Buckley
  • of worst very worse of Harald

Films

Novels

Television

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