Hi Steven, I'm completing a book about LGBT and queer young people's uses of new media (primarily personal websites, lists, online coming out stories) to negotiate identity and public belonging in the rural United States. There's a small piece of that coming out in the journal "American Studies" (if the review process finishes before I retire). The larger ethnographic study (19 months in rural KY and along 3 of its state borders) will be out (please!) by Fall 2008. It's tentatively titled "Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and the Queering of Identity" NYU Press. </shameless self-promotion in the guise of sharing information> ; ) Mary ________________________ Mary L. Gray, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Culture Affiliate Faculty Gender Studies Department and American Studies Program Indiana University Mottier Hall-Ashton Center 1790 East 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405-9700 ph. 812/855.4379 fx. 812/855.6014 email: mLg@indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~qcentral On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:17 PM, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
Message: 10 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:47:21 -0500 From: "Steven Clift" <slc@publicus.net> Subject: [Air-l] Social media in rural communities To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Message-ID: <08dd01c78b3e$d82539e0$6600a8c0@publicus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I am looking for research/researchers exploring the use of social/ citizen media in rural communities/areas.
This might include uses of interactive web 2.0 tools and the like either autonomously by rural folks "MySpace" or collectively around local community "OurSpace."
Cheers, Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org
P.S. We are working up a grant proposal to extend Issues Forums <http://e-democracy.org/if to a few rural Minnesota communities built from a series of generic citizen media and online engagement outreach presentations across the state.
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