The New Gnostics: The Semiotics of the Hipster

This thesis forms a sociological investigation of the ‘hipster’ subculture that has grown in importance in recent years. Using the methodology of semiotic analysis, it examines the trends and themes shown by the images that hipsters post on the microblogging website Tumblr, as well as analysing hips...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elley, Benjamin
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9175