Living the VirtuReal: Negotiating Transgender Identity in Cyberspace

Marciano, Avi

doi:10.1111/jcc4.12081

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“…() revealed how LGBT members perceive the use of online communication as being a positive development in their identities, and how the Internet is a tool for marginalised individuals to take ‘charge of their lives’ (p. 789). More recently, Marciano () stated that transgender users employ cyberspace as preliminary, complementary, and/or an alternative sphere in order to negotiate their complicated gender identity.…”

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“…transgender people. While many recent studies have explored the role of the Internet in the lives of socially marginalised people (Braithwaite & Waldron 1999, Barak & Bloch 2006, Bowker & Tuffin 2007, Barak & Sadovsky 2008, Chuang & Yang 2010, McCormack 2010, Boepple & Thompson 2014, Hixson et al 2015 few were dedicated to transgender users (Whittle 1998, Mehra et al 2004, Marciano 2014.…”

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Online support for transgender people: an analysis of forums and social networks

Cipolletta

Votadoro

Faccio

2017

Health Soc Care Community

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Transgender people face a range of personal and social conflicts that strongly influence their well-being. In many cases, the Internet can become the main resource in terms of finding support. The aim of this study was to understand how transgender people give and receive help online. Between 2013 and 2015, 122 online community conversations were collected on Italian forums and Facebook groups involving transgender people, and online interviews were conducted with 16 users of these communities. A qualitative content analysis was conducted by using the software package, NVivo10. The main categories that emerged were: motivations to join an online community, online help, differences between online and offline interactions, status, conflicts and professional help. Results indicate that participation in online communities often derives from the users' need for help. This help can be given by peers who have had similar experiences, and by professionals who participate in the discussions as moderator. The need to test one's own identity, to compare oneself with others and to share one's personal experiences made online communities at risk of exposing users to invalidation and transphobic messages. Administrators and moderators try to ensure the safety of users, and suggest that they ask for professional help offline and/or online when over-specific medical advice was sought. This study confirms that transgender people might find benefit from an online platform of help and support and might minimise distance problems, increase financial convenience and foster disinhibition.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Online support for transgender people: an analysis of forums and social networks

Cipolletta

Votadoro

Faccio

2017

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“…Clearly, technology can help transgender individuals feel a sense of community, and it may also allow them to learn about their identities in a safe and private manner. Marciano (2014) found that transgender individuals utilize cyberspace in a variety of ways. First, they may employ the Internet as a preliminary sphere in which the virtual world can serve as a test-run for the offline world.…”

Section: Transgender Individuals and The Internetmentioning

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YouTube as Educator: A Content Analysis of Issues, Themes, and the Educational Value of Transgender-Created Online Videos

Miller

2017

Social Media + Society

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The current study explores the videos of eight popular transgender YouTubers. A content analysis was conducted to examine the themes present in videos, the specific issues discussed, and the educational value for viewers. In particular, the present research was interested in the amount of videos that contain transgender-specific content, and in the types of issues—both general and in terms of gender transition—about which transgender YouTubers converse. Videos were also analyzed in relation to self-identified type of transgender individual (e.g. male-to-female [MTF] or female-to-male [FTM]), and significant differences were found in both the amount of transgender-specific content as well as the educational value of videos. This article positions transgender YouTube content as an educational tool that can both help serve as guidance for transgender viewers, as well as increase mainstream audiences’ understanding of transgender persons, subjects, and struggles.

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“…Only one sample of such randomly picked texts might be enough in order to justify the need for terminology clarifications: 'based on virtual ethnography and discourse analysis of online arenas that are central to Israeli transgender community, the study indicates that transgender users employ cyberspace in three main ways: as preliminary, complementary, and/or alternative spheres. By paying close attention to cyberspace as an alternative sphere, which is especially pertinent to the transgender users, the paper revisits two central issues in Internet research, namely the relationships between the online and the offline worlds, and identity issues (authenticity versus falseness) within the online settings' [14]. Quoting such a long piece of text is not for the purpose of a critical reading of the DOI: 10.12948/issn14531305/19.3.2015.06 author's undertaking, but for that of seeing how the language of this constantly developing scientific field may be insufficient or confusing when describing its object.…”

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Homo Digitalis – in Search of a Patterned Usage Identity

Stoicescu¹

2015

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There is a great debate around the ways identity is shaped online, mainly as a result of understanding the online as networked individuals. The present papers tries to open the discussion on whether the quasi-synonym words constantly used to talk about the online communication cyber, virtual and digital define the same reality or whether they can be associated with particular aspects of the identity forged within the computer mediated communication. The search for the differentiating aspects is carried out against the backdrop of technological development which inevitably alters with every new aspect unveiled a new side of each individual's identity.

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Living the VirtuReal: Negotiating Transgender Identity in Cyberspace

Cited by 52 publications

References 53 publications

Online support for transgender people: an analysis of forums and social networks

Online support for transgender people: an analysis of forums and social networks

YouTube as Educator: A Content Analysis of Issues, Themes, and the Educational Value of Transgender-Created Online Videos

Homo Digitalis – in Search of a Patterned Usage Identity

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