This book examines the rise and impact of digital media projects, such as the widely-celebrated It Gets Better Project viral video campaign, designed to support LGBTQ youth at risk. Such media has been commended for enabling everyday makers the opportunity to circumnavigate the formal barriers of institutional spaces and the constraints of mass communication, giving way to a mode of expression, empowerment and voice not available through other means. Based on over three years of participant action research with LGBTQ teen media makers and textual analysis of hundreds of...