negotiating identities
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Negotiating Identities/Queering Desires: Coming Out Online and the Remediation of the Coming-Out Story
Mary L. GrayIndiana University2009, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
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Outline
Introduction Objective Method & Data Media & Technology Critical Youth Studies Queer Realness Conclusion Q&A/ Discussion
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Introduction
Amy’s case & fictional representation
1. Visibility ≠ progay stances
2. Rural places are rarely depicted
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262985/
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→Looking (Fictional Representation)
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Objective
“online representations… provide rural young people with materials for crafting what it means to ‘come out’ as LGBTQ or questioning in rural contexts (1165).”
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Method & Data
19-month ethnographic study→email, what else?
“in situ” approach Name – age – region (sexual
orientation, race) 1. Amy, age 15, a white teenager living in… KY2. John, a 19-year-old white middle class college
student3. Darrin, a gay-identifying 17-year-old from an
agricultural town
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Media & Technology
“These images teach rural youth to look anywhere but homeward for LGBTQ identities (1165).”
“…the presumed properties of the technologies themselves to the exclusion of the social contexts that give technologies meaning (1166).”
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Media & Technology
Media as an escape/ media as spaces: “unable to explore how rural queer and questioning youth engage and transform media… (1167)”
“online spaces… are intimately interwoven with the construction of the offline world (Baym, 2006 [Gray, 2009])
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→Gaydar Culture
“relationships formed within the exterior gay community lead the users to the interior CMC gay community, where they, in turn, develop new relationships which are nurtured and developed outside the bounds of CMC (Shaw, 1997 [Mowlabocus, 2010]).”
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Critical Youth Studies
New Childhood Studies criticizes the “developmental paradigm that frames young people’s identity practices as playful experimentation (1169).”
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Critical Youth Studies
1. Urban vs. Rural queer and questioning youth
2. “collective labor”: identity as work shared among many
• Independent, self-determined
• Urban-based resources & social services
Urban
• interdependent• Queer adult advocates
& non-LGBTQ alliesRural
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Queer Realness
“[realness] is the way that people… appropriate the real and its effects (Halberstam, 2005 [Gray, 2009])
Discursive practices: audience member’s experiences (Mittell, 2001, [Gray, 2009])
“people telling stories to each other… constructing and negotiating social identity. (Bauman, 1986 [Gray, 2009])
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→www.glhv.org.au/website-link/mogenic
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Queer Realness
Family and “reference groups” Connect to a larger network “our inevitable alignments with
multiple audiences lead us… to violate the norms of one reference group no matter what [we] do (Shibutani, 1962 [Gray, 2009])→Brandon: queer realness vs. rural racism
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Conclusion
“These genres of queer realness [online coming-out stories and electronic personal ads] expand their sense of place, home, and belonging within queer social worlds (1182)”
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Q&A/ Discussion
How are online and offline interwoven? Some examples you can think of?
Can we apply the theories to their online experiences, e.g. participation framework?
Is tellership/readership different online?
Can we think of it as an act of performativity?
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Thank you!