Queer Youth and Media Cultures

Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; Christopher Pullen PART I: PERFORMANCE AND CULTURE 1. Stories Like Mine: Coming Out Videos and Queer Identities on YouTube; Bryan Wuest 2. Transgender Youth and YouTube Videos: Self-Representation and Five Identifiable Trans Youth Narratives; Matthew G. O'Neill 3. 'A Safe and Supportive Environment': LGBTQ Youth and Social Media; Stephen Tropiano 4. Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide: Trauma, Therapeutic Discourse and Co-Presence; Christopher Pullen 5. Sexually Marginalized Youth in the South: Narration Strategies and Discourse Coalitions in Newspaper Coverage of a Southern High School Gay-Straight Alliance Club Controversy; Skyler Lauderdale 6. 'WE'VE GOT BIG NEWS': Creating Media to Empower Queer Youth in Schools; Karyl Kethcum PART II: HISTORIES AND COMMODITY 7. Talking Liberties: Framed Youth , Community Video and Channel 4's Remit in Action; Ieuan Franklin 8. We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps; Mareike Jenner 9. Queering TV Conventions: LGBT Teen Narratives on Glee ; RAffi Sarkissian 10. Boy Wizards: Magical and Homosocial Power in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Covenant ; Katherine Hughes 11. Androgynous Social Media & Visual Culture; Stephanie Selvick 12. Queer Youth Cyber-bullying and Policing the Self-Brand; Taylor Nygaard 13. Looking at Complicated Desires: Gay Male Youth and Cinematic Representations of Age-Different Relationships; Kylo-Patrick R. Hart PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INTERSECTIONS 14. Straight Eye for the Queer Guy: Gay Youth in Contemporary Scandinavian Film; Anders Lysne 15. 'Born This Way': Media and Youth Identities in Uganda's Kuchu Community; Melanie Butler and Paul Falzone 16. 'Be Wary of Working Boys': The Cultural Production of Queer Youth in Today's West Africa; Noah Tsika 17. LGBT Student Groups at Universities and their Usage of Social Media as a Public Sphere: A Case Analysis - luBUnya ; ?dil Engideniz ?ahan 18. Parties, Advocacy and Activism: Interrogating Community and Class in Digital Queer India; Rohit K. Dasgupta 19. The It Gets Better Project: A Study In (and of) Whiteness - in LGBT Youth and Media Cultures; Michael Johnson Jr.