Queer Youth and Media Cultures - Tapa dura

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.

Melanie Butler, Peripheral Vision International Rohit K Dasgupta, University of the Arts London, UK ?dil Engindeniz ?ahan, Galatasaray University, Turkey Paul Falzone, Peripheral Vision International Ieuan Franklin, Bournemouth University, UK Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Texas Christian University, USA Katherine Hughes, ASKlabs Documentary Films, USA Mareike Jenner, Aberystwyth University, UK Michael Johnson Jr., Washington State University, USA Karyl Ketchum, California State University, Fullerton, USA Skyler Lauderdale, University of South Florida, USA Anders Lysne, University of Oslo, Norway Taylor Nygaard, University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, USA Matthew G. O'Neill, Queens University of Belfast, UK Christopher Pullen, Bournemouth University, UK Raffi Sarkissian, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, USA Stephanie M. Selvick, World Literature at Utica College, New York, USA Stephen Tropiano, Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, USA Noah Tsika, Queens College, City University of New York, USA Bryan Wuest, UCLA, USA