1st Edition
Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube
By Tobias Raun
Copyright 2016
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Trans people are increasingly stepping out of the shadow of pathologization and secretiveness to tell their life stories, share information and to connect with like-minded others, using YouTube as a platform. Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube explores the digital revolution of trans video blogging, addressing ’trans’ in its many meanings and configurations to... Read more
Introduction
1. Trans meets screen media
2. Looking man enough? Embodiment and narratives of men and masculinity among trans male vloggers
3. ‘Sisters are doin’ it for themselves’: reappropriating trans woman as a category and spectacle through digital storytelling
4. Screen births: trans vlogs as a transformative media for self-representation
5. DIY therapy: exploring the trans video blogs as affective self-representations
6. Youtube is my hood: creating a sense of community
Epilogue: digital trans activism
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Tobias Raun is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark
'Out Online is a compelling, original and generous book. Raun’s scholarship is rigorous and innovative, combining an attentive, in-depth, and insightful analysis of trans vlogs with an important intervention into studies of visual culture, digital media and sexuality and gender. This is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary identities and the politics of participatory culture.' Kate O'Riordan, University of Sussex, UK
