web02.fireside.fm Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:55:40 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Fandom” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/fandom Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:00:00 -0500 Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. en-us episodic Theory on the outside, theory of the outside, outside of the theory Geoff Shullenberger Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. no critical theory, conspiracy theory, outsider intellectuals, outsiders, the outside Geoff Shullenberger gshullenb@gmail.com Deep Internet History with Default Friend https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/deep-internet-history 9dc5d4d6-22d3-4220-9538-a02930b8fa93 Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Default Friend joins me to discuss Sherry Turkle's early sociological studies of the effects of the internet on identity, community, and the popularization of theory. 1:26:22 no Default Friend is a writer investigating the deep history of the internet on her substack, Default Wisdom. She joins me to discuss one of our mutual interests: the work of the sociologist Sherry Turkle, and the light her pioneering 1995 study Life on the Screen sheds on the early history of the internet and the way the 90s internet anticipated present realities. We also explore the implications of Turkle's argument that the internet rendered concrete the abstractions of postmodern theory, as well as Default Friend's own work on fandom, Tumblr and other facets of "the millennial internet." https://defaultfriend.substack.com/ http://www.mit.edu/people/sturkle/Life-on-the-Screen.html Sherry Turkle, the internet, Multi-User Domains, fandom, Tumblr, identity, theory, postmodernism Default Friend is a writer investigating the deep history of the internet on her substack, Default Wisdom. She joins me to discuss one of our mutual interests: the work of the sociologist Sherry Turkle, and the light her pioneering 1995 study Life on the Screen sheds on the early history of the internet and the way the 90s internet anticipated present realities. We also explore the implications of Turkle's argument that the internet rendered concrete the abstractions of postmodern theory, as well as Default Friend's own work on fandom, Tumblr and other facets of "the millennial internet."

https://defaultfriend.substack.com/

http://www.mit.edu/people/sturkle/Life-on-the-Screen.html

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https://defaultfriend.substack.com/

http://www.mit.edu/people/sturkle/Life-on-the-Screen.html

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