ANTH 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: College Town
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Rural young people weave digital-media-generated source material into their identity work, particularly in. The amount rural youth absorb or rework these categories has everything to do w/ each person"s capacity to enact and publicly assert them. Online representations of lgbtq lives seemed more pivotal to shift in sexual identity than fictionalized. Media visibility seemed a natural step in the progression for full rights and equal citizenship. Increase in lgbtq visibility via popular media pro-gay stances at voting booth/congress. Queer realness : the way that people, minorities, excluded from the domain of the real, appropriate the real and its effects. In rural contexts, internet-based texts found on commercial websites, other young people"s homepages, and regional e-mail-based discussion lists, operate as a genre that queers realness. Rural youth sexualities and genders best understood as residues of complicated dialogues that increasingly involve digitally-mediated renderings of lgbtq identities. Authenticity = manufactured moment when a place/event conform to an idealized representation of reality.