LGBT Identity and Online New Media

Christopher Pullen is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. He has widely published in the area sexuality and contemporary media, and is the author of Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film (2007), and Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media (2009).Margaret Cooper is a sociologist at Southern Illinois University.　Her work on gender identity has been internationally published in journals, textbooks, and various collections.　 In addition, she is a former recipient of the Humanitarian of the Year Award in Nashville, Tennessee.

• Preface Introduction, Christopher Pullen Part I: Active Youth 1.The Murder of Lawrence King and LGBT Online Stimulations of Narrative Copresence, Christopher Pullen2."A YouTube of One’s Own?": "Coming Out" Videos as Rhetorical Action Jonathan Alexander & Elizabeth Losh3.YouTube Courtship: The Private Ins and Public Outs of Chris and Nickas, Damon Lindler Lazzara4.Virtually Supportive: Self-Disclosure Of Minority Sexualities Through Online Social Networking Sites, Bruce E. DrushelPart II: Commodity Networks5.Lesbians Who Are Married to Men: Identity, Collective Stories and the Internet Online Community, Margaret Cooper6. A Very Personal World: Advertisement and Identity of Trans-persons on Craigslist, Daniel Farr7.The Facebook Revolution: LGBT Identity and Activism, Margaret Cooper & Kristina Dzara8. PlanetOut and the Dichotomies of Queer Media Conglomeration, Ben Aslinger9.Commercial Closet Association: LGBT identities in mainstream advertising, Ian DaviesPart III: Fan Cultures10: Queering Brad Pitt: The Struggle Between Gay Fans and the Hollywood Machine to Control Star Discourse and Image on the Web, Ronald Gregg11: Internet Fandom, Queer Discourse and Identities, Rosalind Hanmer12: Transconversations: New Media, Community and Identity, Monica Edwards13: Out and About: Slash Fic, Re-imagined Texts and Queer Commentaries, Richard Berger14: Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West, Mark McHarryPart IV: Body Discourses 15:Look at me! Images, Validation and Cultural Currency on Gaydar, Sharif Mowlabocus16: Gay Men’s Use of Online Pictures in Fat-Affirming Groups, Jason Whitesel17: "Compartmentalize Your Life" Advising Army Men on RealJock.com, Noah Tsika18: "Stephanie is Wired: who shall turn him on?", Trudy Barber19: Health Information, STDs, and the Internet: Implications for Gay Men, Joseph CliftPart V: COMMUNITY SPACES20:The Demise of the Gay Enclave, Communication Infrastructure Theory, and the Reconstitution of Gay Public Space, Nikki Usher & Eleanor Morrison21: From Websites to Wal-Mart: Youth, Identity Work, and the Queering of Boundary Publics in Small Town, USA, Mary L. Gray