Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era

Prologue: Introducing GenZ

Introduction. “Visibility and Inclusiveness around Sex, Gender and Sexuality as Central to GenZ Communities”

Part I.  Mass Mediating GenZ:  Representation in TV and Cinema

1. “We are Glamorous Women of Color Who Deserve a Sexy High School Life!” Reimaging Childhood Through Teen Comedy Television About Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Expression

2. Reclaiming the Witch:  Crafting GenZ Affective Structures in Chilling Tales of Sabrina

3. Representations of Transgender Women in the Age of Generation Z: A Cross-Cultural Semiotic Analysis of Bollywood and Japanese Movies

4. “Worthy to be loved”: GenMZ’s engagement with Autism representation in Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Part II:  Queering Social Media: Visibility, Platforms and Power from Audience to State

5. Let Us Play: Digital Campaigns toward Inclusion in Youth Sport

6. A Resurrection from the banned cringe social media Queen: Long live Guonfucius through House of Fandom and Prosumption

7. Day 206 of being a girl: Exploring How LGBTQ+ GenZ Influencers on TikTok Communicately Perform Gender Identity and Sexuality

8. Do I Look like a Woman to You?: Twitch, Irony, and the Female-Presenting Breast

9. "Niang Pao" Prohibition: Masculinity, GenZ, and the Regulation in China

10. Turkey’s Neoliberal Islamist Policies and the Marginalization of the LGBT Community: Exploring Online Spaces and GenZ Gendered and Sexual Identity Activists 

Part III. Feminist Subjectivity, Alliances and Backlash

11. How Did He Become a Feminist? The Subjectivation of Young Male Feminists in South Korean

12. “I want to get her too but no one knows that it happened to me”: Tattoos of Medusa as a Symbol of Surviving Sexual Violence 

13. Sexy Doesn’t Equal Sexist: Depicting Women’s Intersectional Empowerment on Instagram through the Eyes of GenZ

14. Youth perspectives: An assessment of victim blaming against women and girls in Northern, Sri Lanka

Part IV:   Sexuality: Information, Education and Disclosure

15. Offline in the closet, online and out, then offline, out and proud: The online/offline-ness of teenagers' queer worldmaking   

16. Digitally Performed: Adolescent Gender and Identity Development through Social Media  

17. Turning Anxiety into Agency: Sexual Education Experiences and Information-Seeking of GenZ Women

Part V:  Media Effects, Gender, and Sexual Scripts

18. The Uninhabited Informant:  Popular Television and GenZ Sexual Scripts

19. Quantity, Quality and Effects of GenZ era Gender Minority Representations in Social Media Contexts - A Systematic Review

Index

Biography

Rachel R. Reynolds is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Graduate Programs in Communication, Culture & and Media at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. She works on theories of sexual violence and globalization, including approaches to the political economy of sexual violence as an instrumental element within television production.

Dacia Pajé is an Assistant Professor at Providence College, USA. Her research agenda focuses on the televised construction and audience reception of sexual violence and rape culture, with particular attention to crime and legal dramas.

Sienna Medina is an independent researcher in the Midwest USA. She researches (anti)feminist discourses in popular culture. Recently, she has focused on depictions and discussions of sexual violence both in mainstream media and pornography.

John Gigante is a Ph.D. student at Drexel University, USA, in the Communication, Culture and Media program. His research focuses on media representations of necropolitical domains, with a particular focus on mobility infrastructure.