Arthur, Emily D.2009-10-292009-10-2920092009-10-29http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1808Employing 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.enAvailable to the World Wide Websexualitysexual identitysocial mediaInternetcommunication technologiesdiscourseinstitutional ethnographyhuman-technology interactionbisexualitydigital culturecyberqueerrepresentationmediasocial institutionsidentity worksocial organization of knowledgeUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social SciencesThesis