Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on Youtube: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on Youtube

ISBN-13: 9780367596620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Tobias Raun

Opis

A groundbreaking study of the intersection between trans identity and technology, Out Online explores the transformative and therapeutic potential of the video blog ( or ’vlog’) as a means by which trans vloggers can emerge and develop online, using the vlog as a site for creation, intervention, community building and resistance. As such,

Recenzje

'Out Online is a compelling, original and generous book. Raun’s scholarship is rigorous and innovative, combining an attentive, in-depth, and insightful analysis of trans vlogs with an important intervention into studies of visual culture, digital media and sexuality and gender. This is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary identities and the politics of participatory culture.' Kate O'Riordan, University of Sussex, UK

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Trans meets screen media

2. Looking man enough? Embodiment and narratives of men and masculinity among trans male vloggers

3. ‘Sisters are doin’ it for themselves’: reappropriating trans woman as a category and spectacle through digital storytelling

4. Screen births: trans vlogs as a transformative media for self-representation

5. DIY therapy: exploring the trans video blogs as affective self-representations

6. Youtube is my hood: creating a sense of community

Epilogue: digital trans activism

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Tobias Raun is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark