[Air-l] Social media in rural communities

[qCentral/Mary L. Gray]

Hi Steven,

I'm completing a book about LGBT and queer young people's uses of new  
media (primarily personal websites, lists, online coming out stories)  
to negotiate identity and public belonging in the rural United  
States. There's a small piece of that coming out in the journal  
"American Studies" (if the review process finishes before I retire).  
The larger ethnographic study (19 months in rural KY and along 3 of  
its state borders) will be out (please!) by Fall 2008. It's  
tentatively titled "Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and the  
Queering of Identity" NYU Press.

</shameless self-promotion in the guise of sharing information>
; )

Mary
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Mary L. Gray, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication and Culture
Affiliate Faculty
Gender Studies Department and American Studies Program
Indiana University
Mottier Hall-Ashton Center
1790 East 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-9700
ph. 812/855.4379
fx.  812/855.6014
email: mLg at indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~qcentral




On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:17 PM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:

> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:47:21 -0500
> From: "Steven Clift" <slc at publicus.net>
> Subject: [Air-l] Social media in rural communities
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> I am looking for research/researchers exploring the use of social/ 
> citizen
> media in rural communities/areas.
>
> This might include uses of interactive web 2.0 tools and the like  
> either
> autonomously by rural folks "MySpace" or collectively around local  
> community
> "OurSpace."
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Clift
> E-Democracy.Org
>
> P.S. We are working up a grant proposal to extend Issues Forums
> <http://e-democracy.org/if to a few rural Minnesota communities  
> built from a
> series of generic citizen media and online engagement outreach  
> presentations
> across the state.
>
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> Steven Clift - clift at publicus.net
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