Published: 2020-11-30

DOES NEUROMANCER LIKE WODNIK SZUWAREK? COMPUTER ZINES AND SUBCULTURAL CAPITAL OF POLISH YOUTH IN THE TIME OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION

Patryk Wasiak
Etnografia Polska
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/EP64.2020.006

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the role of “disk magazines” in the identity construction and performance of masculinity among Polish adolescents. It examines the subculture of users of popular home computers Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga during the post-communist system transition. Both written content and visual form were used by disk magazine editors to manifest their position in the peer group and perform their masculinity. This article outlines how youth actively constructed cultural forms and meanings that reflect the outside world both in terms of mass media culture and the ongoing process of post-communist transition.

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youth, system transformation, subcultures, popular culture, computer, Poland, youth, political transition, subcultures, popular culture, computers, Poland

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Wasiak, P. (2020). DOES NEUROMANCER LIKE WODNIK SZUWAREK? COMPUTER ZINES AND SUBCULTURAL CAPITAL OF POLISH YOUTH IN THE TIME OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION. Etnografia Polska, 64. https://doi.org/10.23858/EP64.2020.006

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