Queer Youth and Media Cultures

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Stories like Mine: Coming Out Videos and Queer Identities on YouTube....Pages 19-33
Transgender Youth and YouTube Videos: Self-Representation and Five Identifiable Trans Youth Narratives....Pages 34-45
‘A Safe and Supportive Environment’: LGBTQ Youth and Social Media....Pages 46-62
Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide: Trauma, Therapeutic Discourse and Co-Presence....Pages 63-85
Sexually Marginalized Youth in the South: Narration Strategies and Discourse Coalitions in Newspaper Coverage of a Southern High School Gay-Straight Alliance Club Controversy....Pages 86-97
‘We’ve Got Big News’: Creating Media to Empower Queer Youth in Schools....Pages 98-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Talking Liberties: Framed Youth, Community Video and Channel 4’s Remit in Action....Pages 115-130
We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps....Pages 131-144
Queering TV Conventions: LGBT Teen Narratives on Glee....Pages 145-157
Boy Wizards: Magical and Homosocial Power in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Covenant....Pages 158-169
Androgynous Social Media and Visual Culture....Pages 170-181
Queer Youth Cyber-Bullying and Policing the Self-Brand....Pages 182-196
Looking at Complicated Desires: Gay Male Youth and Cinematic Representations of Age-Different Relationships....Pages 197-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Straight Eye for the Queer Guy: Gay Youth in Contemporary Scandinavian Film....Pages 211-223
‘Born This Way’: Media and Youth Identities in Uganda’s Kuchu Community....Pages 224-238
‘Be Wary of Working Boys’: The Cultural Production of Queer Youth in Today’s West Africa....Pages 239-250
LGBT Student Groups at Universities and Their Usage of Social Media as a Public Sphere: A Case Analysis — luBUnya....Pages 251-264
Parties, Advocacy and Activism: Interrogating Community and Class in Digital Queer India....Pages 265-277
The It Gets Better Project: A Study in (and of) Whiteness — in LGBT Youth and Media Cultures....Pages 278-291
Back Matter....Pages 292-296