[Air-L] New Book: LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe

[Sharon Greenfield]

Fantastic!
Looks to be a very informative book.
Thank you.

-Sharon

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RMIT University, Australia

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On 30 November 2016 at 19:59, Szulc Lukasz <lukasz.szulc at uantwerpen.be>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> It's a pleasure for us to announce the publication of our edited volume on
> 'LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe', published by Routledge Research in
> Cultural and Media Studies. The book includes a foreword by Richard Dyer
> and an afterword by Sharif Mowlabocus, and is available at:
> https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138649477. Below, you can find a
> brief summary of the book and its table of contents.
> Dhoest, A., Szulc, L. & Eeckhout, B., eds. (2017) LGBTQs, Media and
> Culture in Europe. New York: Routledge.
> Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay,
> bisexual, transgender and queer people. Rather than one homogenised idea of
> the 'global gay', what we find today is a range of historically and
> culturally specific expressions of gender and sexuality, which are
> reflected and explored across an ever increasing range of media outlets.
> This collection zooms in on a number of facets of this kaleidoscope, each
> chapter discussing the intersection of a particular European context and a
> particular medium with its affordances and limitations. While traditional
> mass media form the starting point of this book, the primary focus is on
> digital media such as SNS (Social Networking Sites), blogs and online
> dating sites. All contributions are based on recent, original empirical
> research, using a plethora of qualitative methods to offer a holistic view
> on the ways media matter to particular LGBTQ individuals and communities.
> Together the chapters cover the diversity of European countries and
> regions, of LGBTQ communities, and of the contemporary media ecology.
> Resisting the urge to extrapolate, they argue for specificity,
> contextualisation and a provincialized understanding of the connections
> between media, culture, gender and sexuality.
> TABLE OF CONTENTS
> Foreword - Richard Dyer
> Introduction - Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc and Bart Eeckhout
> Part I. Histories of Representation in Mass Media and Beyond
> 1. Respectably Gay: Homodomesticity in Ireland's First Public Broadcast of
> a Homosexual Couple - Páraic Kerrigan
> 2. Breaking the Silence: The Early Portuguese Lesbian Press - Ana Maria
> Brandão, Tânia Cristina Machado and Joana Afonso
> 3. 'I Am My Own Special Creation': Sexual and Gender Differences in the
> Music Performances of an Antwerp Drag Show Company - Robbe Herreman and
> Alexander Dhoest
> Part II. Media Consumption, Identification and Role Models
> 4. Coming Out in the Digital Age: The Opportunities and Limitations of
> Internet Use in Queer-Lesbian Coming-Out Experiences in Germany - Ulrike
> Roth
> 5. 'I Think I'm Quite Fluid with Those Kinds of Things': Exploring Music
> and Non-Heterosexual Women's Identities - Marion Wasserbauer
> 6. 'I Worry That They'll Pick on Someone I Care about': Trans People's
> Perceptions of the British Mass Media and Its Impact on Their Mental Health
> and Well-Being - Louis Bailey, Jay McNeil and Sonja J. Ellis
> Part III. LGBTQs as Producers in the Digital Age: Blogging
> 7. Safe Space, Dangerous Space: Counterpublic Discourses in the Russian
> LGBT Blogging Community - Evgeniya Boklage
> 8. Is the Pope Judging You? Digital Narratives on Religion and
> Homosexuality in Italy - Giulia Evolvi
> 9. Contesting Hegemonic Gender and Sexuality Discourses on the Web: A
> Semiotic Analysis of Latvian and Polish LGBTQ and Feminist Blogs - Joanna
> Chojnicka
> Part IV. Discourses on and by LGBTQs on Social Media
> 10. Homosexuality on Dutch and Flemish Facebook Pages: Situational
> Meanings, Situational Attitudes? - Tim Savenije
> 11. Gay the Correct Way: Mundane Queer Flaming Practices in Online
> Discussions of Politics - Jakob Svensson
> 12. 'I Sort of Knew What I Was, So I Wanted to See What Awaited Me':
> Portuguese LGB Youngsters and Their Situated Experiences with New Media -
> Daniel Cardoso
> Part V. Self-presentation and Intimacy on Online Dating Sites
> 13. Exploring Networked Interactions through the Lens of Location-Based
> Dating Services: The Case of Italian Grindr Users - Lorenza Parisi and
> Francesca Comunello
> 14. New in Town: Gay Immigrants and Geosocial Media - Andrew DJ Shield
> 15. Strategic (In)visibilities and Bareback Subcultures: The Implications
> of Online Communication for HIV Transmission among Gay Men in Serbia -
> Zoran Milosavljevic
> Afterword: Writing at the Precipice - Sharif Mowlabocus
>
> With regards,
> Alexander, Lukasz & Bart
>
> Lukasz Szulc, PhD
> Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders
> University of Antwerp
> Department of Communication Studies
> Media, Policy & Culture
>
> M. 471 - Stadscampus - Sint-Jacobstraat 2 - B
> 2000 Antwerp, BELGIUM
> Tel. +32 3 265 50 34
> www.lukaszszulc.com<http://www.lukaszszulc.com/>
> @LukaszSzulc<https://twitter.com/LukaszSzulc>
>
> RECENT PUBLICATIONs
> Dhoest, A. & Szulc, L. (2016) Navigating onlince selves: Social, cultural,
> and material contexts of social medi use by diasporic gay men. Social Media
> + Society 2(4): 1-10. Available at: http://sms.sagepub.com/
> content/2/4/2056305116672485.full
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