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Simulated Sessions: Cannabis (Sub)culture, the Subcultural Repository, and Networked Mediation

Micinski, Nathan J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395327787

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2014, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
Subcultural theory is traditionally rooted in notions of social deviance or resistance. The criteria for determining who or what qualifies as subcultures, and the most effective ways to study them, are based on these assumptions. This project seeks to address these traditional modes of studying subcultures and discover ways in which their modification may lead to new understandings and ways of studying subcultures in the contemporary moment. This will be done by suggesting a change in the criteria of examining subcultures from that of deviance or resistance to identification with a collection of images, symbols, rituals, and narratives. The importance of this distinction is the ability to utilize the insights that studying subcultures can offer while avoiding the faults inherent in speaking for or at a subculture rather than with or from it. Beyond addressing theoretical concerns, this thesis aims to apply notions of subcultural theory to study the online community of Reddit, in particular, a subset known as r/trees-a virtual repository for those images, symbols, rituals, and narratives of cannabis subculture. R/trees illustrates the life and vibrancy of a unique subcultural entity, which to this point has evaded a cultural studies analysis. To that end, this project advocates for the importance of the cultural studies approach to analyzing cannabis subculture and further, to insert the findings of this study into that gap in the literature. This thesis will demonstrate both the relevance of this cultural studies approach, in addition to revealing how this study and its subject, r/trees, are reflective of an engaged cultural studies.
Ellen Berry, PhD (Advisor)
Rob Sloane (Committee Member)
88 p.
American Studies; Criminology; Social Research; Web Studies
Cannabis; Cannabis Culture; Cannabis Subculture; Subculture; Repository; Subcultural Repository; Reddit; r-trees; Networked Mediation; Simulated Sessions; Cultural Studies

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  • Micinski, N. J. (2014). Simulated Sessions: Cannabis (Sub)culture, the Subcultural Repository, and Networked Mediation [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395327787

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Micinski, Nathan. Simulated Sessions: Cannabis (Sub)culture, the Subcultural Repository, and Networked Mediation. 2014. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395327787.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Micinski, Nathan. "Simulated Sessions: Cannabis (Sub)culture, the Subcultural Repository, and Networked Mediation." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395327787

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