TY - JOUR
TI - Hipsters as a Digital Post-community. Remarks on Post-subcultural Internet Folklore
AU - Jeziński, Marek
AU - Wojtkowski, Łukasz
TI - Hipsters as a Digital Post-community. Remarks on Post-subcultural Internet Folklore
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2017
IS - Issue 2 (32)
PY - 2017
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 176
EP - 190
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.17.012.7360
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/hipsterzy-jako-post-wspolnota-cyfrowa-uwagi-o-post-subkulturowym-internetowym-folklorze
KW - hipsterism
KW - digital culture
KW - post-subculture
KW - post-community
KW - visuality
KW - meaning