LGBT identity and online new media / edited by Christopher Pullen and Margaret Cooper. - xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Active Youth -- The Murder of Lawrence King and LGBT Online Stimulations of Narrative Copresence / "A YouTube of One's Own?": "Coming Out" Videos as Rhetorical Action / YouTube Courtship: The Private Ins and Public Outs of Chris and Nickas / Virtually Supportive: Self-Disclosure Of Minority Sexualities Through Online Social Networking Sites / Commodity Networks -- Lesbians Who Are Married to Men: Identity, Collective Stories and the Internet Online Community / A Very Personal World: Advertisement and Identity of Trans-persons on Craigslist / The Facebook Revolution: LGBT Identity and Activism / PlanetOut and the Dichotomies of Queer Media Conglomeration / Commercial Closet Association: LGBT identities in mainstream advertising / Fan Cultures -- : Queering Brad Pitt: The Struggle Between Gay Fans and the Hollywood Machine to Control Star Discourse and Image on the Web / : Internet Fandom, Queer Discourse and Identities / : Transconversations: New Media, Community and Identity / : Out and About: Slash Fic, Re-imagined Texts and Queer Commentaries / : Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West / Body Discourses -- :Look at me! Images, Validation and Cultural Currency on Gaydar / : Gay Men's Use of Online Pictures in Fat-Affirming Groups / : "Compartmentalize Your Life" Advising Army Men on RealJock.com / : "Stephanie is Wired: who shall turn him on?" / : Health Information, STDs, and the Internet: Implications for Gay Men / Community Spaces -- :The Demise of the Gay Enclave, Communication Infrastructure Theory, and the Reconstitution of Gay Public Space / : From Websites to Wal-Mart: Youth, Identity Work, and the Queering of Boundary Publics in Small Town, USA / Christopher Pullen -- Christopher Pullen -- Jonathan Alexander & Elizabeth Losh -- Damon Lindler Lazzara -- Bruce E. Drushel -- Margaret Cooper -- Daniel Farr -- Margaret Cooper & Kristina Dzara -- Ben Aslinger -- Ian Davies -- Ronald Gregg -- Rosalind Hanmer -- Monica Edwards -- Richard Berger -- Mark McHarry -- Sharif Mowlabocus -- Jason Whitesel -- Noah Tsika -- Trudy Barber -- Joseph Clift -- Nikki Usher & Eleanor Morrison -- Mary L. Gray. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part III. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Part IV. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Part V. 20. 21.

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Sexual minorities--Identity
Social media.

HQ73 / .L43 2010

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