Editorial introduction
Hakan Ergül
Chapter 1. Understanding gender and digital media: key concepts
Kate Gilchrist and Hakan Ergül
PART I: BECOMING gendered selves, desire, and the digital everyday
Chapter 2. Gender and identity in the postmodern, posthuman, and postdigital era
Sara Hawley
· Essay 2. Flowing together, apart: an allo‑autoethnography of inscribing female kinship and intimacy
Tanya Geggie
Chapter 3. Queer and transgender studies of digital media
Kata Kyrölä
· Essay 3. Kuaxingbie and transgender in the age of digital platforms
Zhuanxu Xu
Chapter 4. Dating and romance online: reimagining intimacy, transforming the self, and negotiating risk
Kate Gilchrist
· Essay 4. Queer Indian youth and online intimacy: examining intimate relationships on social media
Jaskirat
Chapter 5. Fandom and digital media: a sandbox for creative gender, sexuality, and feminist configurations
Audrey Jean
· Essay 5. Self‑perception in slash fanfiction characters: queer gaze and desire towards the male body in Star Trek slash fanfiction
Audrey Jean
PART II: SEEING representation, race, and the politics of the gaze
Chapter 6. How we are seen: why representation still matters
Kata Kyrölä
· Essay 6. Ambiguous representation of bisexuality in the film Chasing Amy
Yuanwanruo Chen
Chapter 7. Ten things I hate about genres: gender and genre in the post‑digital era
Lucía-Gloria Vázquez-Rodríguez
· Essay 7. Challenging tradition: a comparative analysis of gender representation in shōnen through Hinata Hyuga and Mikasa Ackerman
Mala Annamma Mathew
Chapter 8. Understanding the historical foundations of race, beauty, and gendered hatred online
Karen Wilkes
· Essay 8. Social media influencing
Laila Strachan
PART III: RESISTING belonging, activism, and masculinities online
Chapter 9. Gender and minoritised childhoods in the digital era
Feryal Awan
· Essay 9. Digital politics of young activists in Chile
Laura Manzi Araneda
Chapter 10. The manosphere between the global and the local
Sama Khosravi Ooryad & Jacob Johanssen
· Essay 10. Online hate, memes, and the rising Iranian manosphere
Sama Khosravi Ooryad
Chapter 11. Gender and belonging in digital diasporic spaces
Hakan Ergül
· Essay 11. “This country rejected me before meeting me”: challenging migrant representation as Other in European media
Maya Aziz
Part IV: INTERVENING games, gendered technologies, and feminist futures
Chapter 12. Researching digital games, players, and gender
Diane Carr
· Essay 12. Gaming and the abject in survival horror
Shiqing Li
Chapter 13. Haptic histories, virtual traces: excavating gender‑diverse XR innovation
Sarah Atkinson
· Essay 13. Feminist epistemologies for preserving XR
Zeynep Abes
Index
Biography
Hakan Ergül is an Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He has extensive teaching and research experience in media ethnography, audience studies, media sociology, cultural studies, digital media theory, gender studies, and qualitative methods.
