[Air-l] Social media in rural communities

[J. J.]

"fashion?"
"preference" perhaps ... ?
I think that at all times we are in search for words that would reflect our 
changing realities and our changing perceptions ... I just don't find 
"fashion" as having the right ring to it, to describe the process.

Jarek


>From: James Whyte <whyte.james at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] Social media in rural communities
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:00:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Is "queer" acceptable (non-prejudicial) these days? I have a hard time 
>keeping up with the fashion.
>
>   James
>
>"qCentral/Mary L. Gray" <qcentral at indiana.edu> wrote:
>   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.
>
>
>; )
>
>Mary
>________________________
>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"
> > Subject: [Air-l] Social media in rural communities
> > To:
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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
> > > built from a
> > series of generic citizen media and online engagement outreach
> > presentations
> > across the state.
> >
> > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > Steven Clift - clift at publicus.net
> >
> > Web: http://publicus.net
> > Blog: http://dowire.org/notes
> > NGO: http://e-democracy.org
> >
> > Replies to slc@ may be missed.
> > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> >
>
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