ISBN:
9781137383549
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (319 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Queer Youth and Media Cultures
DDC:
302.23086/64
Keywords:
Communication
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Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Specific themes of investigation include the context of queer youth suicide and educational strategies to avert this within online new media, and the significance of coming out videos produced online
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Don't Ever Wipe Tears and Shemetov's photograph; Queer media cultures and youth; Coming out, education, bullying and homophobia; Queer youth and identification; Structure of book; Conclusion; Part I: Performance and Culture; 1 Stories like Mine: Coming Out Videos and Queer Identities on YouTube; Visibility and acculturation; Conclusion; 2 Transgender Youth and YouTube Videos: Self-Representation and Five Identifiable Trans Youth Narratives; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Self-representation in trans youth: A theoretical frameworkAdaptable methods in the study of trans youth and YouTube videos; Five identifiable trans youth narratives; Conclusion; 3 'A Safe and Supportive Environment': LGBTQ Youth and Social Media; LGBT teens online; It Gets Better Project: 'Give hope to LGBT youth'; The Trevor Project: 'Saving young lives'; 4 Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide: Trauma, Therapeutic Discourse and Co-Presence; Introduction; Method; The commodity of the It Gets Better Project; Counter public, confession and therapeutic discourse
Description / Table of Contents:
Shame, remembering and pedagogic workIntimate and painful contributions: Justin Aaberg's and Asher Brown's parents; The It Gets Better Project, consensual validation and the sociality of pain; Conclusion; 5 Sexually Marginalized Youth in the South: Narration Strategies and Discourse Coalitions in Newspaper Coverage of a Southern High School Gay-Straight Alliance Club Controversy; Data and methods; GSA controversy in Currituck County, North Carolina; Discourse coalitions and people production in Currituck County; Margaret Smiley; Local elected officials; GSAs as sexual recruitment clubs
Description / Table of Contents:
Resolution and aftermathDiscussion; 6 'We've Got Big News': Creating Media to Empower Queer Youth in Schools; Signifying regimes and Debord's 'spectacle'; Background; The shoot; Conclusion; Post script; Part II: Histories and Commodity; 7 Talking Liberties: Framed Youth, Community Video and Channel 4's Remit in Action; Introduction: A licence to be queer?; Prefigurative? The origins of Framed Youth; The documentary aesthetics of Framed Youth; Framed? Distribution, education and Section 28; Documenting struggle/documentary (as) struggle; Overcoming political fragmentation
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: Re-Framed Youth8 We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps; Introduction; The teen soap: Constructing identity; Before Jack: Homosexuality and 'otherness'; But what about Jack? Moving homosexuality into the 'mainstream'; After Jack: The normality of 'otherness'; Conclusion: The 'gay kid' as part of the mainstream?; 9 Queering TV Conventions: LGBT Teen Narratives on Glee; Introduction and history; From multiplicity to microcosm; Serial narrative; Concluding thoughts
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Boy Wizards: Magical and Homosocial Power in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Covenant
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