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Tag: Queer Media

What Is “Good” Digital Media Work, Anyway?
Austin Morris / University of Wisconsin, Madison

October 26, 2020 Austin Morris / University of Wisconsin-Madison Leave a comment

Using new media cooperative Defector as a case study, Austin Morris explores the ethics of online content production and what it means to do “good work” in the digital content industries.

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Things That Shouldn’t Have Gay Energy But Do Anyways: CTI, Remixes and TikTok Duets
Luis Loya and Elaine Almeida / University of Wisconsin-Madison

September 29, 2020 Luis Loya and Elaine Almeida / University of Wisconsin-Madison Leave a comment

Luis Loya and Elaine Almeida utilize Communication Theory of Identity (CTI) to understand how hashtags and duet/remix affordances connect the multiplicity of queer identity performances across TikTok.

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Syndication 203: A Waxy Queer Buildup
Taylor Cole Miller / University of Georgia

May 4, 2020 Taylor Cole Miller / University of Georgia One comment

In his final installment on television syndication, Taylor Cole Miller examines how particular first-run syndicated programs offered and embraced queerness.

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“Rainbow Is the New Black”: Netflix’s Queer Marketing Moment
Joseph Harrison / University of Warwick

March 2, 2020 Joseph Harrison / University of Warwick Leave a comment

Joseph Harrison takes up Netflix’s recent ambiguously political advertising campaign in Italy.

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Television is Burning: Revolutionary Queer and Trans Representation on TV
Danielle Seid / Baruch College, CUNY

September 16, 2019 Danielle Seid / Baruch College, CUNY One comment

Danielle Seid offers a close reading of FX’s Pose and the ways it brings revolutionary queer and trans representations to TV.

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The Kiss Heard ‘Round the World: “Juliantina” and International Lesbian Soap Opera Fandom
Kira Deshler / University of Texas at Austin

June 24, 2019 Kira Deshler / University of Texas at Austin 10 comments

Kira Deshler explores the fan labor, viewing habits, and community building practices that define international lesbian soap opera fandom, focusing specifically on the “Juliantina” fandom.

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Normalizing Subversion: The Comedy Approach of ‘Take My Wife’
Ashlynn d’Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin

July 30, 2018 Ash Kinney d'Harcourt / University of Texas at Austin 2 comments

Ashlynn d’Harcourt explores the ways in which comedians Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher stealthily center themselves on screen and in doing so, reposition their non-normative identities as conventional, further normalizing their subversiveness.

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An LGBTQ Netflix: Productive? Restricting? Lasting?
Chelsea McCracken / Beloit College

October 2, 2017 Chelsea McCracken / Beloit College 5 comments

Chelsea McCracken considers Revry – the LGBT Netflix – alongside historical responses and successes of LGBTQ production companies, distribution platforms, and film festivals.

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The Homogenized Queerness of Historical Television
Britta Hanson / University of Texas at Austin

July 5, 2017 Britta Hanson One comment

What does the presence of queer characters accomplish in historical shows? How much historicity do their depictions require? Britta Hanson explores the positive – and frequently negative – implications of modern-framed queer characters placed in the past.

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Teen TV’s Post-Closet and Postracial Fictions
Wendy Peters / Nipissing University

October 26, 2015 Wendy Peters / Nipissing University One comment

Wendy Peters examines “post-” political representations — post-racial, post-closet — and the ways in which they erase the realities of racism, homophobia, and normative privilege from the teen televisual landscape.

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