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LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe, Hardback Book

LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe Hardback

Edited by Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc, Bart Eeckhout

Part of the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series

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Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.

Rather than one homogenised idea of the ‘global gay’, what we find today is a range of historically and culturally specific expressions of gender and sexuality, which are reflected and explored across an ever increasing range of media outlets.

This collection zooms in on a number of facets of this kaleidoscope, each chapter discussing the intersection of a particular European context and a particular medium with its affordances and limitations.

While traditional mass media form the starting point of this book, the primary focus is on digital media such as blogs, social media and online dating sites.

All contributions are based on recent, original empirical research, using a plethora of qualitative methods to offer a holistic view on the ways media matter to particular LGBTQ individuals and communities.

Together the chapters cover the diversity of European countries and regions, of LGBTQ communities, and of the contemporary media ecology.

Resisting the urge to extrapolate, they argue for specificity, contextualisation and a provincialized understanding of the connections between media, culture, gender and sexuality.

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