Gender and Sexuality in the Internet Era

2012 ◽  
pp. 516-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panayiota Tsatsou
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Internet

Gender and Sexuality on the Internet

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 630-634
Author(s):  
John G. Younger
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Internet

scholarly journals GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL MEDIA USE, GENDER IDENTITY, AND SEXUALITY AMONG YOUNG LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brady Robards ◽  
Brendan Churchill ◽  
Son Vivienne ◽  
Benjamin Hanckel ◽  
Paul Byron
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms

For LGBTIQ+ people, the internet and social media are key channels for communicating and connecting with queer peers, and learning about queer life and queer experiences. While digital social spaces have evolved over the past 20 to 30 years, many of the motivations for using these platforms remain the same. This paper draws on data from the Scrolling Beyond Binaries study, centred on a national Australian survey of 1,304 young LGBTIQ+ people. We present key findings from the study examining generational differences across our four age cohorts of our young respondents: 16–20, 21–25, 26–30 and 30–35. Even among this group of young people, we find stark differences by age in self-identification related to gender and sexuality, and also patterns of difference in the social media platforms they use. Our younger respondents identify with much more fluid forms of gender and sexuality, and also tend to favour dating and hook-up apps that are more inclusive. We seek to foreground the ways in which the internet continues to be significant for our respondents for social connection and learning. We also add to our understandings of the complex and evolving ways in which young LGBTIQ+ people use and thus (re)produce digital social spaces, returning to Nina Wakeford’s (2000 [1997]) consideration of ‘cyberqueer spaces’.

scholarly journals Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (256) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Jones
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Transgender Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article investigates the construction of two transgender vlogger personas, providing insight into the prevalence of normative discourses which may be drawn on when constructing transgender identities. Many transgender people around the world rely on the internet as a source of information and guidance, with online video diaries (“vlogs”), in which young people record and chart their experiences of transition, playing a particularly important role. In this article, discourse from two popular transgender vloggers is critically analysed. It is found that the vloggers index identities which are broadly in line with what Lal Zimman terms the archetypal “true transsexual”, an ideological model of what it means to be “authentically” transgender. This corresponds with heteronormative, essentialist expectations of binary gender. The vloggers are shown to authenticate their own experiences by stating what is “typical” and positioning themselves as “experts”. Ultimately, it is argued that the version of transgender identity and experience that they put forward reproduces prevalent discourses of normative gender and sexuality.

Interpreting the Internet

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Jay Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Keystone Species ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changes Over Time

This book provides the first in-depth exploration of how Latin American feminist and queer activists have interpreted the internet, from its inception in the region through the explosion of social media. They have done so to support their counterpublics: the diverse and dynamic arenas in which they develop their identities, build their communities, and hone their strategies for social change. This region boasts a long history of gender- and sexuality-based counterpublic construction, supported by a range of alternative media. Since the 1990s, aided by a global network of women and men dedicated to establishing an accessible internet, activists have translated the internet into their own vernacular. Through an analysis of original research based on over 125 interviews and online evidence spanning fifteen years, this book advances three interrelated arguments. First, it supports the sociomaterial thesis that, as with all technologies, the internet is influenced by the social contexts in which it is embedded. But this influence changes over time and place. Second, the internet in itself offers no guarantee of social or political transformation. Instead, this book’s third argument is that the internet’s potential depends on the consciousness and creativity with which activists translate it into their own contexts, through adopting, sharing, and wielding it. In Latin America, feminist and queer counterpublic organizations have taken advantage of all three layers of the internet – physical, logical, and content – to extend and enrich their communities. And, led by their “keystone species” of early adopting, technologically savvy members, they have transformed applications from distribution lists to blogs in order to reflect their values.

scholarly journals Gender, Sexuality, Heteronormativity: reports of young people in the school context through vlogs

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e3549119893
Author(s):  
Luana Galleano Mello ◽  
Cristian Fabiano Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
School Environment ◽  
School Context ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Support Network ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Qualitative Nature

The present work approaches a subject that has not been clearly discussed by the schools and teachers: the questions of gender and sexuality. Our objective was to explore elements related to the young people in vlogs, keeping in mind to analyze the experience of gender and sexuality in a school environment. We intended to investigate the effects of the non-existence of this kind of policy in the school context, through analysis of vlogs. The research was of the qualitative nature, through the study exploratory character, and documental research utilizing vlogs of the internet. The results suggest that the internet is used as a support network, and the themes discussed by the young ones can be grouped in three axes: pedagogical control, deconstruction of heteronormativity culture and expression of fragilities.

Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guadalupe García McCall
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
The Common ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Latinx Youth ◽  
Shed Light

Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx Young Adult Literature signals a much-needed approach to the study of Latinx young adult literature. This edited volume addresses themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children’s and young adult literature. The collection insists that to understand Latinx youth identities, it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks, and others who might not fit within Latinx popular cultural paradigms such as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present in films, television, and the Internet. In Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks, the through-line of being an outsider intersects with discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The volume addresses the following questions. What constitutes “outsider” identities? In what ways are these “outsider” identities shaped by mainstream myths around Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner city Latinx teen? How do these young adults reclaim what it means to be an “outsider,” “weirdo,” “nerd,” or “goth,” and how can the reclamation of these marginalized identities expand much-needed conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings of what constitutes Latinx identity? How does Chicanx/Latinx children’s and YA literature represent, challenge, question, or expand discussions surrounding identities that have been deemed outsiders/outliers?

A hitchhiker’s guide to microscopy and microanalysis using telecommunications, e-mail, and the Internet

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 390-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nestor J. Zaluzec
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
On Line ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Communication Software ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
E Mail

The Information SuperHighway, Email, The Internet, FTP, BBS, Modems, : all buzz words which are becoming more and more routine in our daily life. Confusing terminology? Hopefully it won't be in a few minutes, all you need is to have a handle on a few basic concepts and terms and you will be on-line with the rest of the "telecommunication experts". These terms all refer to some type or aspect of tools associated with a range of computer-based communication software and hardware. They are in fact far less complex than the instruments we use on a day to day basis as microscopist's and microanalyst's. The key is for each of us to know what each is and how to make use of the wealth of information which they can make available to us for the asking. Basically all of these items relate to mechanisms and protocols by which we as scientists can easily exchange information rapidly and efficiently to colleagues in the office down the hall, or half-way around the world using computers and various communications media. The purpose of this tutorial/paper is to outline and demonstrate the basic ideas of some of the major information systems available to all of us today. For the sake of simplicity we will break this presentation down into two distinct (but as we shall see later connected) areas: telecommunications over conventional phone lines, and telecommunications by computer networks. Live tutorial/demonstrations of both procedures will be presented in the Computer Workshop/Software Exchange during the course of the meeting.

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