Can We Play ‘Fun Gay’? Disjuncture & Difference in Millenial Queer Youth Narratives

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dc.contributor.authorBryson, Mary
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-20T19:44:16Z
dc.date.available2015-11-20T19:44:16Z
dc.date.copyright2009en_US
dc.date.issued2009-06-04
dc.description.abstractIt has become commonplace for narratives concerning youth whose lives are situated within cultures saturated by convergent media, unproblematically to reproduce assumptions regarding the meliorative role of access to networked digital media. In these accounts, learning is co-extensive with play, access with participation, logging in with belonging, and the consumption of digital artifacts is read as meaningful engagement in networked socialities. Techno-rationalist accounts concerning Net Gen youth and new media likewise tend to consolidate in narratives that foreground a putative impact accorded to access to techno-social networks, the possibility to overcome inequities that would otherwise accrue as a function of problematic participation and citizenship in a public. This paper attends to the generative role of the Internet in accounts of sexual self-formation by millennial queer youth – youth whose adolescence is situated in a networked, digital culture. With particular attention to the contingent assemblage of gender, sexuality and other modes of identification, this research counters and complicates decontextualized, celebratory notions of queer youth and cyberspace.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Summer Institute, Workshop and Conference Grant – Critical Digital Studies Workshopen_US
dc.identifier.citationBryson, Mary. "Can We Play ‘Fun Gay’? Disjuncture & Difference in Millenial Queer Youth Narratives." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. Presentation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://pactac.net/2009/06/can-we-play-fun-gay-disjuncture-difference-in-millenial-queer-youth-narratives/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6814
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPacific Centre for Technology and Cultureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Digital Studies Workshopsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectqueer youth
dc.subjectdisjuncture
dc.subjectconvergent media
dc.subjectnetworked digital media
dc.subjectdigital artifacts
dc.subjectnetworked socialites
dc.subjectsexual self-formation
dc.subjectmillennial youth
dc.subjectsexuality
dc.subjectPacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC)
dc.titleCan We Play ‘Fun Gay’? Disjuncture & Difference in Millenial Queer Youth Narrativesen_US
dc.typeVideoen_US

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