Producing Queer Youth: The Paradox of Digital Media Empowerment Contributor(s): Berliner, Lauren S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415790840 ISBN-13: 9780415790840 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 160 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Producing Queer Youth challenges popular ideas about online media culture as a platform for empowerment, cultural transformation, and social progress. Based on over three years of participant action research with queer teen media-makers and textual analysis of hundreds of youth-produced videos and popular media campaigns, the book unsettles assumptions that having a "voice" and gaining visibility and recognition necessarily equate to securing rights and resources. Instead, Berliner offers a nuanced picture of openings that emerge for youth media producers as they negotiate the structures of funding and publicity and manage their identities with digital self-representations. Examining youth media practices within broader communication history and critical media pedagogy, she forwards an approach to media production that re-centers the process of making as the site of potential learning and social connection. Ultimately, she reframes digital media participation as a struggle for--rather than, in itself, evidence of--power. |