Games, Geek Culture, and Diversity Essay

Over the last few decades there has been an increase of diversity within geek culture. With the changing times the face of geek culture has changed. In fact, the geek subculture has become more accepting and even supported in mainstream media with shows that focus on video games, fantasy, and science fiction. The straight white middle class male is no longer the main targeted audience or demographic when it comes to marketing Geek culture. For this essay, we are going to look at the gamer subculture under geek culture as rhetors like Extra Credits and Anita Sarkeesian use different medium to display a need for diversity and ways that diversity can be used in media specifically games. This essay will explore Extra Credits and Sarkeesian’s use of rhetorical concepts through their videos. Also we  will explore tumblr as a cyberpublic and hybrid public involving gamer subculture.

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