%0 Journal Article
%T Hipsters as a Digital Post-community. Remarks on Post-subcultural Internet Folklore
%A Jeziński, Marek
%A Wojtkowski, Łukasz
%J Arts & Cultural Studies Review
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/20843860PK.17.012.7360
%N Issue 2 (32)
%P 176-190
%K hipsterism, digital culture, post-subculture, post-community, visuality, meaning
%@ 1895-975X
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/hipsterzy-jako-post-wspolnota-cyfrowa-uwagi-o-post-subkulturowym-internetowym-folklorze
%X 
	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.