Lgbt Identity and Online New Media

ISBN-13: 9780415998666 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 328 str.

Christopher Pullen; Margaret Cooper

Opis

This title examines constructions of LGBT identity within new media. The contributors considerthe effects, issues, influences, benefits and disadvantages of these new media phenomena with respect to the construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities.

O autorze

Christopher Pullen is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. He has widely published in the area sexuality and contemporary media, and is the author of Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film (2007), and Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media (2009).

Margaret Cooper is a sociologist at Southern Illinois University.　Her work on gender identity has been internationally published in journals, textbooks, and various collections.　 In addition, she is a former recipient of the Humanitarian of the Year Award in Nashville, Tennessee.