Nerdtopia! A nerd culture workshop for researchers

The nerds won the culture wars. Consumers coming of digital age are doing so against an online cultural backdrop which has been built from the tropes and customs of role-playing games, fandoms, and bulletin boards. If you don’t understand this culture, you won’t understand your future consumers. This bizarre, enlightening and practical workshop is a crash course in the real roots of modern culture, from cosplay to 4chan, avatars to lolcats.