Entertainment media and the information practices of queer individuals

Floegel, Diana; Costello, Kaitlin Light

doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2019.01.001

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“…We structured questions from topic d) based on [14]'s model of information practices, which divides them into seeking, sharing, and use. We also added creating as another relevant practice uncovered in research on teens and LGBTQ+ individuals [28][29]41]. Following interviews, we asked participants to elicit topics c) and d) further using information worlds mapping, a visual arts elicitation method [42].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In other cases, the anonymity of online spaces provides a way for communities to safely seek information [28]. Other work considers the consumption of established LGBTQ+ information resources (i.e., media) within the community as purposeful "satisficing" based on the collective perception that limited representation is better than none [29]. Some research studies outside of LIS apply an informational focus to LGBTQ+ health; for instance, prior research identified how negative past experiences with health practitioners shaped LGBTQ+ patients' sharing and seeking practices, specifically disclosure management and avoidance [30][31].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This identity normalizes and dictates an LGBTQ+ agenda exclusionary of non-white gay cisgender men [32]; transgender and gender nonconforming persons of color [33]; and non-Western LGBTQ+ individuals [34]. This lack of representation is evident in the studies overviewed [27][28][29], noting the overt presence of white, well-educated participants as a limitation. Similarly, much of the research focusing on LGBTQ+ individuals predominantly looked at millennial populations [28][29].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This lack of representation is evident in the studies overviewed [27][28][29], noting the overt presence of white, well-educated participants as a limitation. Similarly, much of the research focusing on LGBTQ+ individuals predominantly looked at millennial populations [28][29]. Further, [27][28]'s research recruited participants in mostly urban areas, reifying metronormativity narratives, which singularize the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals inhabiting metropolitan spaces as universalized narratives [35].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“In the Beginning, It Was Little Whispers…Now, We’re Almost a Roar”: Conceptualizing a Model for Community and Self in LGBTQ+ Health Information Practices

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Wagner

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2020

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Although LGBTQ+ populations experience significant health challenges, little research exists that investigates their health from an informational perspective. Our study addresses this gap by exploring the health information practices of LGBTQ+ communities in South Carolina, focusing on how sociocultural context shapes these practices. Thirty semi-structured interviews with South Carolina LGBTQ+ community leaders analyzed using open qualitative coding informed the development of a conceptual framework describing their information practices. Findings show that participants engaged in two broad types of practices -protective and defensive -as responses to risks and barriers experienced, which are in turn produced by social and structural factors. Findings advance information practices and marginalization approaches and offer ways for medical professionals to improve service to LGBTQ+ populations.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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“In the Beginning, It Was Little Whispers…Now, We’re Almost a Roar”: Conceptualizing a Model for Community and Self in LGBTQ+ Health Information Practices

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“…Including queer content in libraries may be controversial despite its benefits (Oltmann, 2015). Libraries' potential to function as safe spaces for queer individuals (Cooper, 2014;Oltmann, 2016) may be curbed by longitudinal injustices including discriminatory cataloging practices (Adler, 2012;Howard & Knowlton, 2018) and other stigmas (Floegel & Costello, 2019).…”

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“A good intention gone awry”: Queering makerspaces to support queer creators

Floegel

2019

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Although library makerspaces encourage community‐building and creativity, normative values in libraries may prevent queer individuals from using these spaces. Interviews with 11 adult queer entertainment media (EM) creators were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory to explore participants' perspectives on creating in libraries. Opportunities and obstacles related to physical spaces, community relationships, and resources demonstrate that makerspaces should be considered within overall contexts of library services in order to examine libraries' utility for queer people. Results support the idea that makerspaces need to be woven into library programs and services more broadly to make libraries more inclusive environments.

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Meaning‐making on gender: Deeply meaningful information in a significant life change among transgender people

Huttunen

Kortelainen

2021

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The purpose of this paper is to report on the seeking of deeply meaningful information, also including embodied information, connected to significant, intensely personal life changes having lifelong impacts. The concepts of "meaning-making," "transitioning," and information seeking in "deeply meaningful and profoundly personal contexts" are used in order to understand transgender individuals' information seeking in the contexts of gender identity formation. Based on the literature, emotions and information seeking connected to a significant life change were divided into four phases to study how they could be identified in the 25 qualitative interviews with transgender individuals from Finland between the ages of 15 and 72. Based on the findings of this study, in significant life changes, an individual needs reliable, sensible and identifiable information. Serendipitous encounters and embodied experiences characterize information seeking during transitional stages. Peer communities are important for minorities in order to find places where interviewees feel safe to share information and experiences. These communities can also be found online. The concept of "deeply meaningful information" highlights the effect information has on information seekers. Deeply meaningful information can serve as a trigger for life change, helping people forward during the transitions.

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Entertainment media and the information practices of queer individuals

Cited by 40 publications

References 59 publications

“In the Beginning, It Was Little Whispers…Now, We’re Almost a Roar”: Conceptualizing a Model for Community and Self in LGBTQ+ Health Information Practices

“In the Beginning, It Was Little Whispers…Now, We’re Almost a Roar”: Conceptualizing a Model for Community and Self in LGBTQ+ Health Information Practices

“A good intention gone awry”: Queering makerspaces to support queer creators

Meaning‐making on gender: Deeply meaningful information in a significant life change among transgender people

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