Although there are numerous prominent examples of social media misuse, these cases
should not disproportionately characterize the scope or potential of digital media …

Online communities provide support for those who are vulnerable, such as LGBTQ people
while coming out. Research shows that social support and personal narrative construction …

Discussing the mainland Chinese web series Guardian, adapted from a homoerotic “boys'
love” novel, this paper examines the practices and discourses of producers, viewers, and the …

Since public access to the Internet in Mainland China increased in the early 2000s, pop-
cultural (re) productions and imaginings that interrogate the rigid boundaries of gender …

This article argues that the K-pop space, which on one level appears to be homogeneously
cishetpatriarchal, actually encompasses multiple configurations of gender and sexual …

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TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS social media. Fans are increasingly seen as …

Queer media plays a significant role in the education and validation of emerging LGBTQ
individuals. Although the volume of such media has increased, there are still ways in which it …

In the current society, the online and fictional worlds are important spaces for both the
identity construction and wellbeing of LGBTQ people. Connecting these spaces are fandoms …

'Queerbaiting'is a pejorative fan-coined term that refers to the media practice of deliberately
hinting at, or advertising, queer representation to attract and gain the investments of LGBTQ …

This article builds further on research in gender/queer TV studies to understand how
interpretive communities form around gender-diverse TV series on social media platforms …