Queer Youth and Media Cultures PDF

This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media.

Offering an interdisciplinary focus and presenting a diverse range of contributions from authors based in and/or writing about the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Turkey, India, Scandinavia and Africa, it is organized under three sections: 'Performance and Culture', 'Histories and Commodity' and 'Transnational Intersections'.

Specific themes of investigation include the context of queer youth suicide and educational strategies to avert this within online new media; the significance of coming-out videos produced online; the historical precedence of television and film representation; the representation of age-different relationships within film; transgender youth and the use of online media; educational video projects involving affirmation; cyberbullying and hierarchies in new media identity; and limitations in Scandinavian coming-out films.