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David Anderegg: Nerds

Kurzbiographie
- 1953 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, geboren
- 2007 Buch "Nerds"

Aktuellster Beitrag

David Anderegg in seiner eigenen Schreibe

ANDEREGG, David (2010): American kids and their parents navigating the twenty-first century.
How I learned to hate cyberspace. Do intellectual exchanges need to be nasty, brutish and short?
in: psychologytoday.com v. 06.02.

David Anderegg in der Debatte

BROOKS, David (2008): The Alpha Geeks,
in: The New York Times v. 23.05.
LOHR, Steve (2009): New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs,
in: New York Times v. 21.12.
RED (2009): "Nerds" und "Geeks" schaden dem Ruf der IT.
Professor empfiehlt diese Begriffe aus dem Alltag zu verbannen, da sie nur Stereotype fördern würden,
in: Der Standard v. 22.12.
GILSDORF, Ethan (2010): Exploring the intersection of pop culture, mass media and the geek/gamer mind.
Jocks vs. nerds, brawn vs. brain, hunks vs. dweebs: Now it's cool to be a geek. Wasn't always that way,
in: psychologythoday.com v. 25.09.
Neu:
VASEK, Thomas (2010): Die Rache der Nerds.
Sie ernähren sich von kalter Pizza, stehen auf Rollenspiele und haben schon in der Schule kein Mädchen abgekriegt - so viel zum Klischee. Dabei hätten Nerds einiges zu bieten,
in: brand eins, Nr.4, April

Nerds (2007).
Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them
Tarcher

Klappentext

"A lively, thought-provoking book that zeros in on the timely issue of how anti-intellectualism is bad for our children and even worse for America.

Why are our children so terrified to be called "nerds"? And what is the cost of this rising tide of anti-intellectualism to both our children and our nation? In Nerds, family psychotherapist and psychology professor David Anderegg examines why science and engineering have become socially poisonous disciplines, why adults wink at the derision of "nerdy" kids, and what we can do to prepare our children to succeed in an increasingly high-tech world.

Nerds takes a measured look at how we think about and why we should rethink "nerds," examining such topics as: - our anxiety about intense interest in things mechanical or technological;
- the pathologizing of "nerdy" behavior with diagnoses such as Asperger syndrome;
- the cycle of anti-nerd prejudice that took place after the Columbine incident;
- why nerds are almost exclusively an American phenomenon;
- the archetypal struggles of nerds and jocks in American popular culture and history;
- the conformity of adolescents and why adolescent stereotypes linger into adulthood long after we should know better; and nerd cultural markers, particularly science fiction.

Using education research, psychological theory, and interviews with nerdy and non-nerdy kids alike, Anderegg argues that we stand in dire need of turning around the big dumb ship of American society to prepare rising generations to compete in the global marketplace."