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Briana Bui

Jennifer Rodrick

QS 115

14 September 2017

Internet Impacts

Dhoest, Alexander, and Lukasz Szulc. Navigating Online Selves: Social, Cultural, and

Material Contexts of Social Media Use by Diasporic Gay Men. Social Media Society, vol. 2,

no. 4, 2016, pp. Social Media Society, 2016, Vol.2(4). 14 September 2017. In this article, it

describes how if one is a part of the LGBTQ community, they have a bit more of a challenge to

conceal who they really are. They focus on a diasporic gay men group, which some mine have

had parents or themselves, who have migrated, so they have to deal with getting settled with

things, and learning to adapt to new environments. Not all of them come from the LGBTQ

community though. The article continues with the subject on how Facebook has an "anonymous"

identity option to not have anyone be mad.

Fox, Jesse, and Rachel Ralston. Queer Identity Online: Informal Learning and Teaching

Experiences of LGBTQ Individuals on Social Media. Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 65,

2016, p. 635. 14 September 2017. This article is about how the LGBTQ community has a hard

time being accepted so they turn to the internet to hide who they really are. Everyone is different,

but there are some common factors when one is coming out. This article also includes a case

study of a group that posts in community centers and college buildings that are asked to identify

their sexual orientation and their gender identity.

McKenna, Katelyn Y. A., et al. Coming Out in the Age of the Internet: Identity

Demarginalization Through Virtual Group Participation. Journal of Personality and Social

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Psychology, vol. 75, no. 3, 1998, pp. 681694. 14 September 2017. This article discusses about

how the queer identities feel safer when talking to someone else behind the screen. It shows three

studies that show more of the positive side of being a part of the LGBTQ community. It was

important to feel accepted and that more people of this community felt more accepted. The term

marginal identities was important in this article because it distinguished between concealable and

conspicuous statuses.