LGBT Identity and Online New Media [Paperback]

LGBT Identity and Online New Mediaexamines 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 mens 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.

Preface

Introduction, Christopher Pullen

Part I: Active Youth

1.The Murder of Lawrence King and LGBT Online Stimulations of Narrative Copresence, Christopher Pullen

2. A YouTube of Ones Own? : Coming Out Videos as Rhetorical Action Jonathan Alexander & Elizabeth Losh

3.YouTube Courtship: The Private Ins and Public Outs of Chris and Nickas, Damon Lindler Lazzara

4.Virtually Supportive: Self-Disclosure Of Minority Sexualities Through Online Social Networking Sites, Bruce E. Drushel

Part II: Commodity Networks

 

5.Lesbians Who Are Married to Men: Identity, Collective Stories and the Internet Online Community, Margaret Cooper

6. A Very Personal World: Advertisement and Identity of Trans-persons on Craigslist, Daniel Farr

7.The Facebook Revolution: LGBT Identity and Activism, Margaret Cooper & Kristina Dzara

8. PlanetOut and the Dichotomies of Queer Media Conglomeration, Ben Aslinger

9.Commercial Closet Association: LGBT identities in mainstream advertising, IlsÃ