Wildmen on the Cyberfrontier: The Computer Geek as an Iteration in the American Wildman Lore Cycle

摘要

This paper argues that the image of the computer geek that took shape around the turn of the twenty-first century borrowed elements from earlier American constructions of the wildman. In particular, the geek, like prior wildmen, compressed ideas about four conflicting values: liberty and danger, authenticity and fakery.