Vlogging truth to power : a qualitative study of resilience as practiced by transgender youtube content creators.

transgender;youtube;resilience;worldmaking;social media;community

Corey J. Feger

University:University of Louisville

Department:Women's and Gender Studies

关键词: transgender;    youtube;    resilience;    worldmaking;    social media;    community;   

Others  :  https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4385&context=etd

美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

This thesis presents an exploratory account of ways that transgender people’s personal YouTube channels, or “vlogs,” provide new avenues to cultivate resilience as a collective. To make sense of this unstable, contested model of identity and community, I apply a three-part model of “social resilience,” a theory of resilience that transcends the individual and welcomes incoherency, contradiction, and “messiness” into its analysis. In Chapter One, I provide a snapshot of transgender history and present my research objective and justification. Chapter Two consists of a literature review and argues in favor of a hybrid theory of intersectionality and assemblage. Chapter Three outlines my epistemological frameworks and methods, and the limitations of qualitative social media research. In Chapter Four, I present my findings, and in Chapter Five I evaluate the potential for cultivating three dimensions of resilience through YouTube before offering suggestions for future research.