The New Formula For Cool : : Science, Technology, and the Popular in the American Imagination / / Judith Kohlenberger.
»Our society has undergone a paradigm shift. In the information age, you and I are the alpha males,« Dr Leonard Hofstadter, experimental physicist and protagonist of the hit sitcom »The Big Bang Theory«, assures himself and his fellow scientists. The success of this and similar formats in American p...
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