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.
| ISBN: | 9780415790840 |
| Publication date: | 18th June 2018 |
| Author: | Lauren Samara Berliner |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media |
| Genres: |
Media studies Gender studies: men and boys LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Cultural studies Sociology |
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.
Producing Queer Youth features in the following genres: Media studies, Gender studies: men and boys, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Cultural studies, Sociology
Producing Queer Youth is available in Hardback
Producing Queer Youth was written by Lauren Samara Berliner and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Producing Queer Youth has 160 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media series
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