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Queering New Media: Connectivity in Imagined Communities on the Internet

Corbett, Andrew M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429277316

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2015, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
This project looks at how the LGBTQ community uses the internet, both in positive and negative ways in terms of media production and community. I briefly give some background using the Frankfurt School scholars on media production and the disconnect it causes between culture and audience when art is produced for mass consumption and then resituate those arguments and put them in conversation with modern technology and theorists to show how imagined communities, specifically the LGBT community, can use the mass consumption of media to their advantage when they are the producers of said media. I analyze three different types of media, Grindr related pictures, Instagram, and YouTube for both positives and negatives and look at not only what the media does, but the context in which it was produced, what it was meant to do, and possible readings of the media. By allowing voices and points of view that would be marginalized through traditional means of media production to have their own space with a global audience these technologies serve as a delimiting, though sometimes dangerous space, for the LGBTQ community to gather, curry social capital, and connect with others who validate them.
Radhika Gajjala, PhD (Advisor)
Becca Cragin, PhD (Committee Member)
79 p.
Gender; Gender Studies; Mass Media
New Media; LGBTQ; YouTube; Instagram; Grindr; Imagined Communities; Adorno; Horkheimer; Benjamin; Internet

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  • Corbett, A. M. (2015). Queering New Media: Connectivity in Imagined Communities on the Internet [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429277316

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Corbett, Andrew. Queering New Media: Connectivity in Imagined Communities on the Internet. 2015. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429277316.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Corbett, Andrew. "Queering New Media: Connectivity in Imagined Communities on the Internet." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429277316

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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