LGBT Identity and Online New Media examines constructions of LGBT identity within new media. The contributors consider the effects, issues, influences, benefits and disadvantages of these new media phenomena with respect to the construction of LGBT identities. A wide range of mainstream and independent new media are analyzed, including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, gay men’s health websites, message boards, and Craigslist ads, among others. This is a pioneering interdisciplinary collection that is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, and technology.
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List of Figures and Tables |
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| Introduction |
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The Murder of Lawrence King and LGBT Online Stimulations of Narrative Copresence |
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"A YouTube of One's Own?": "Coming Out" Videos as Rhetorical Action |
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YouTube Courtship: The Private Ins and Public Outs of Chris and Nickas |
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51 | (11) |
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Virtually Supportive: Self-Disclosure of Minority Sexualities through Online Social Networking Sites |
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62 | (13) |
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PART II Commodity Networks |
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Lesbians Who Are Married to Men: Identity, Collective Stories, and the Internet Online Community |
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A Very Personal World: Advertisement and Identity of Trans-persons on Craigslist |
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87 | (13) |
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The Facebook Revolution: LGBT Identity and Activism |
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100 | (13) |
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PlanetOut and the Dichotomies of Queer Media Conglomeration |
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113 | (12) |
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Commercial Closet Association: LGBT Identities in Mainstream Advertising |
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125 | (14) |
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Queering Brad Pitt: The Struggle between Gay Fans and the Hollywood Machine to Control Star Discourse and Image on the Web |
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139 | (8) |
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Internet Fandom, Queer Discourse, and Identities |
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147 | (12) |
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Transconversations: New Media, Community, and Identity |
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159 | (14) |
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Out and About: Slash Fic, Re-imagined Texts, and Queer Commentaries |
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Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West |
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185 | (16) |
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Look at Me! Images, Validation, and Cultural Currency on Gaydar |
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201 | (14) |
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Gay Men's Use of Online Pictures in Fat-Affirming Groups |
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"Compartmentalize Your Life": Advising Army Men on RealJock.com |
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230 | (15) |
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"Stephanie Is Wired: Who Shall Turn Him On?" |
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245 | (13) |
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Health Information, STDs, and the Internet: Implications for Gay Men |
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258 | (13) |
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The Demise of the Gay Enclave, Communication Infrastructure Theory, and the Transformation of Gay Public Space |
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From Websites to Wal-Mart: Youth, Identity Work, and the Queering of Boundary Publics in Small Town, USA |
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288 | (11) |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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Christopher Pullen is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. He has widely published in the area sexuality and contemporary media, and is the author of Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film (2007), and Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media (2009).
Margaret Cooper is a sociologist at Southern Illinois University.Her work on gender identity has been internationally published in journals, textbooks, and various collections. In addition, she is a former recipient of the Humanitarian of the Year Award in Nashville, Tennessee.
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