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Gabriel Roman
Jennifer Rodrick
QS 115
September 15, 2017
Exercise #3 (Annotated Bibliography)

Alegria, Sharla. Queer identity? Discussing identity and appearance in an on-Line

Genderqueer community. University of South Florida Scholar Commons, December
2007. scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1595&context=etd. Accessed
15 September 2017. In this piece, author Sharla Alegria gives insight on what the true
gender norms are. She dives into a discussion about the queer identity by using what she
refers to as the Queer Theory, this theory is a way of viewing various topics through
the eyes of members of the queer community. Alegria is able to give first-hand
experiences of what it is to be a member of this community after taking part in an
experiment. She discusses the nature of identifying as something besides a male or a
female, and truly expanding the common knowledge of queer identity.

Friesem, Elizaveta and Shaw, Adrienne. Where Is the Queerness in Games? Types of Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Content in Digital Games. International Journal
of Communication, 2016, Vol.10.
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/5449/1743. Accessed 15 September 2017.
Shaw and Friesem dive into the online world of gaming in this piece. Shaw and Friesem
argue that video games not only lack in having characters that are of the LGBTQ
community, but they also lack representation outside of games that simulate real life.
Even when characters of video games are members of the LGBQT community they are
for the most part homosexual, and not enough representation of transgender people are
shown. Relationships are nearly non-existent for members of the queer community, and
although many characters are rumored to be gay but arent specifically described as gay.
Overall Shaw and Friesem explore video games and speak on the lack of characters that
identify as being part of the queer community.

Fox, Jesse and Warber, Katie. Queer Identity Management and Political Self-Expression on
Social Networking Sites: A Co-Cultural Approach to the Spiral of Silence. Journal of
Communication, 1 February 2015, Vol.65, pp.79-100.
web.b.ebscohost.com.libproxy.csun.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=c1c1a452-
b656-43ff-bc12-529735d50b61%40sessionmgr102. Accessed 15 September 2017. Fox
and Warber discuss both the positive and negative aspects that have affected the queer
community since the first boom for both the internet social networks in the nineties. They
discuss the power that anonymity gave members of the queer community to openly
discuss their sexual preferences, but also how the growth of social networks and the
expansion of chat rooms also led to segregating the queer community from heterosexuals.
They discuss how social network sites led to a change in the way the queer community
was represented by the media. It also led to a growth in people speaking out for the queer
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community. They show us the pros and cons when it comes to the queer community and
online communities.