LGBTQ+ Communities and Digital Media

Robards, B; Byron, P; D'Souza, S

LGBTQ+ Communities and Digital Media

Robards, B Byron, P

D'Souza, S

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Citation:: Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media, 2021
Issue Date:: 2021

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dc.contributor.author	Robards, B
dc.contributor.author	Byron, P https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6591-3060
dc.contributor.author	D'Souza, S
dc.contributor.editor	Rohlinger, D
dc.contributor.editor	Sobieraj, S
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-23T23:23:43Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-23T23:23:43Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.citation	Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media, 2021
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/153463
dc.description.abstract	Digital media offer spaces to many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people (LGBTQ+) for connection, support, and friendship and hosts vital resources for learning and practicing diverse genders and sexualities. In this chapter, the authors review key research on LGBTQ+ communities and identities in digital spaces over several decades, dividing the chapter into three main sections: (1) community and connection, (2) romance and dating, and (3) identity work. In the first section on community and connection, they examine research centered on how LGBTQ+ people use digital media to forge connections and build “communities.” While this term is contested in the literature, many LGBTQ+ people use it to describe their experiences of digital networks. Second, they outline the growing body of research on how LGBTQ+ people use digital media in their romantic and sexual lives, from dating/hook-up apps to social media. They consider the challenges, pleasures, and opportunities in how LGBTQ+ people use digital media for sex and dating practices and potential. Third, they reflect on how these connections have figured into ongoing research on LGBTQ+ identities, where digital media allow LGBTQ+ people to develop shared languages to describe their experiences, to reflect on their lives, and to rehearse modes of self-representation.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press
dc.relation.ispartof	Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197510636.013.22
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dc.title	LGBTQ+ Communities and Digital Media
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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dc.date.updated	2022-01-23T23:23:42Z
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Abstract:

Digital media offer spaces to many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people (LGBTQ+) for connection, support, and friendship and hosts vital resources for learning and practicing diverse genders and sexualities. In this chapter, the authors review key research on LGBTQ+ communities and identities in digital spaces over several decades, dividing the chapter into three main sections: (1) community and connection, (2) romance and dating, and (3) identity work. In the first section on community and connection, they examine research centered on how LGBTQ+ people use digital media to forge connections and build “communities.” While this term is contested in the literature, many LGBTQ+ people use it to describe their experiences of digital networks. Second, they outline the growing body of research on how LGBTQ+ people use digital media in their romantic and sexual lives, from dating/hook-up apps to social media. They consider the challenges, pleasures, and opportunities in how LGBTQ+ people use digital media for sex and dating practices and potential. Third, they reflect on how these connections have figured into ongoing research on LGBTQ+ identities, where digital media allow LGBTQ+ people to develop shared languages to describe their experiences, to reflect on their lives, and to rehearse modes of self-representation.

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