Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age

Dr. Nicole Farris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Her major areas of interest are gender, marriage/family, and demography, and just published her book on Boomerang Kids: Previously Launched Adults in the United States. Her prior publications focus on gender, sexuality, and the use of social media as a pedagogical tool. Dr. D’Lane Compton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at the University of New Orleans. Her research interests include social psychology and gender/sexualities. Her latest book, Legalizing LGBT Families: How the Law Shapes Parenthood, emphasizes the variability in the laws for LGBT families across the United States. She has co-authored various other pieces with her co-editor Dr. Nicole Farris, including Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes, and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies through Springer. Andrea P. Herrera is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon. Andrea is the recipient of the 2016 and 2017 Marquina Faculty-Graduate Student Collaboration Award and the Charles A. Reed Graduate Fellowship at the University of Oregon. Her work focuses on the intersection of gender/sexuality/race and their links to social media.

• Part I: Youth Culture and “Kids These Days”:  Anxious Publics, Disruptive Bodies: Online Discourse about Transgender Children:   Kate Henley Averett.-  Cybersexism: How Gender and Sexuality Are at Play in Cyberspace: Gabrielle Richard and Sigolène Couchot-Schiex.- Let’s Talk About Porn: The Perceived Effect of Online Mainstream Pornography on LGBTQ Youth: Penny Harvey.- Part II: Visual Media and Social Control: Dangers and Possibilities of Online Collective Identity: The It Gets Better Project: Colleen Rost-Banik.-  Back That Sexism Up: An Analysis of the Representation of Women's Bodies in Music Videos  Randa Simpson Hovater and D. Nicole Farris.- How a Democracy Killed Tamir Rice: White Racial Frame, Racial Ideology, and Racial Structural Ignorance in the United States: Corey J. Miles.- Part III: Online Disruptions and Nonbinary Genders: Sexing the Margins: Homonationalism in GayDating Apps:   Emerson L.R. Barrett.- Becoming Non-Binary: An Exploration of Gender Work in Tumblr:   Megan Sharp and Barrie Shannon.-  Prejudice and Social Media: Attitudes toward Illegal Immigrants, Refugees, and Transgender People:  Theresa Davidson and Lee Farquhar.- Part IV: Sexual Cultures and Their Isms:  The Drama of Predatory Heteromasculinity Online: Sine Anahita.- Negotiating Racialized Sexuality through Online Stancetaking in Text-Based Communication: Ping-Hsuan Wang.-  “No Fats, Femmes, or Blacks:” The Role of Body Types, Gender Roles and Race in Condom Usage Online: Jesus Gregorio Smith and Sally Brown.