@article{bf1f3b8b-d88e-4c50-9d9f-5a3d0d755ebc,
author = {Marek Jeziński, Łukasz  Wojtkowski},
title = {Hipsters as a Digital Post-community. Remarks on Post-subcultural Internet Folklore},
journal = {Arts & Cultural Studies Review},
volume = {2017},
number = {Issue 2 (32)},
year = {2017},
issn = {1895-975X},
pages = {176-190},keywords = {hipsterism; digital culture; post-subculture; post-community; visuality; meaning},
abstract = {The field of theoretical analysis presented in the paper is the hipster digital culture and its visual representations. We perceive hipsters’ digital formation as post-subculture and post-community that shapes specific cultural patterns with fragmented identity, inconstant group membership or high cultural mobility. Yet they form stabile connections with other members of post-community with strong emphasis on the common meaning of codes they use and circulate in visual communication. Moreover, we argue that hipsterism operates on two levels: (1) communicative acts of hipsters that are apparent ‘visual reflections’ of their desirable lifestyles. In other words, participants of digital post-community operate with codes created by other members, but relatively more often taken from dominant culture, and incorporated into hipster-like set of meanings; (2) hipsters and their visual representations are strongly mediatized even though there is no media mechanism of legitimization of this digital post-community, therefore the media are not able to seize a dynamic of codes’ circulation within culture.},
doi = {10.4467/20843860PK.17.012.7360},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/hipsterzy-jako-post-wspolnota-cyfrowa-uwagi-o-post-subkulturowym-internetowym-folklorze}
}