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Geekospheres: Visual Culture and Material Culture at Work

Anna McCarthy

New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, anna.mccarthy{at}nyu.edu

This photo essay documents a kind of space that is called, in cyber jargon, the geekosphere. Geekospheres are the personal spaces that computer users create around their monitors, using trinkets, toys, mottoes, images and other emphemera. These highly individualized assemblages are not simply sites for personal expression. Rather, they often serve as vehicles for coded statements about the workplace and the experience of work.

Key Words: computers • new media • work Note

Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2, 213-221 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1470412904044800
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