The performance and production of bisexual identity work online

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dc.contributor.authorArthur, Emily D.
dc.contributor.supervisorCarroll, William K.
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-29T22:04:48Z
dc.date.available2009-10-29T22:04:48Z
dc.date.copyright2009en
dc.date.issued2009-10-29T22:04:48Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractEmploying institutional ethnography as an analytic frame, this study explicates the disjuncture felt by bisexual-identified individuals between their lived actualities and the textual realities stemming from the binary model of sexuality. This study also explores the role of online journal communities, including the capabilities and limits of this type of venue, as a rolling text that coordinates the narratives created there around bisexuality and bisexual-identification. Finally, this study critically examines the collaborative development of an experience-based discourse on bisexuality as produced by text-based identity work. Through the coordination of bisexual identity work taking place online, the venue facilitates the production of an alternative discourse that is differentiated from other sexuality discourses in its demonstration of fluidity, multiplicity, and resistance to order. In its differences from, rather than its similarities to, governing sexuality discourses, this bisexual discourse-in-production creates the possibility for a radical reconceptualization of sexuality and sexual-identification.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1808
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjectsexualityen
dc.subjectsexual identityen
dc.subjectsocial mediaen
dc.subjectInterneten
dc.subjectcommunication technologiesen
dc.subjectdiscourseen
dc.subjectinstitutional ethnographyen
dc.subjecthuman-technology interactionen
dc.subjectbisexualityen
dc.subjectdigital cultureen
dc.subjectcyberqueeren
dc.subjectrepresentationen
dc.subjectmediaen
dc.subjectsocial institutionsen
dc.subjectidentity worken
dc.subjectsocial organization of knowledgeen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciencesen
dc.titleThe performance and production of bisexual identity work onlineen
dc.typeThesisen

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