MDSC62H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Participatory Culture, Web 2.0, Heteronormativity
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Lecture 4: queer lives, participatory culture, and social media: participatory culture and social media. Web 2. 0 is characterized by interactivity, social media (eg. blogs, myspace, facebook, wiki sites), and multiple flows of interaction and communication. On social media, users are content producers, not simply content consumers. Social media can offer a venue for a from the bottom participatory culture, in which members of marginalized groups might create a space to share art, ideas, information or to create community. = on one hand, social media are (usually or eventually) corporately owned and full of mainstream and corporately created visual texts. = on the other hand, everyday users are also able to use these sites, usually for free, to create and post their own visual texts. Lgbtq people: lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or questioning. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning are sexual orientations.
