My House, Therefore I Am: Campus "otaku" Subculture Study

Staying indoors and overly using internet has been always negatively regarded as abad habit or even as a social issue of the undergraduates by most educators on campus.In fact, the campus--"otaku" can be considered a subculture phenomenon. Its speciallife style differs from that of traditional students and is hard to be recognised asorthodox, therefore generated the misunderstanding.Overall, the campus-otaku has its own life style and habit, unique living scene,community culture and consuming behaviour and particular generated environment.This thesis researches the campus-"otaku" from the perspective of subculture. So wecan understand and recognize the campus"otaku" more rationally through scanning thespecial group’s daily life, analyzing its generated environment and unscrambling itsexistence and resonance.