"Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don't Decide My Identity For Me": LGBTQ plus Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development
"Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don't Decide My Identity For Me": LGBTQ plus Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development
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DOI：
10.1177/0743558419884700
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发表时间：
2019-11-03
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2
通讯作者：
Bell, Beth T.
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作者：
Bates, Adam;Hobman, Trish;Bell, Beth T.
社交媒体为女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别酷儿+（LGBTQ+）青年提供了日常接触更广泛的社会文化对话的机会，这种对话可能会塑造叙事身份的发展。通过深入的叙事访谈，本研究试图了解11 LGBTQ+本科生（年龄范围= 19-23）在社交媒体的文化背景下建立叙事身份的生活经历，以及社交媒体在这一过程中的作用。访谈进行了分析，使用解释性的，个人的故事分析。然后通过主题分析对这些经验进行比较和对比，以确定四个共同的叙述主题。关于合并安全空间的叙述强调了LGBTQ+青年现在如何定期获得在线/离线的安全环境，这有助于更安全的身份发展。外部身份对齐的叙述将社交媒体描述为LGBTQ+青年寻求符合他们先前存在的自我意识的身份的工具。多重情境身份的叙述概括了青少年的身份标记是多重的，并以依赖于情境的方式被唤起。最后，个性和自主性的叙述描述了LGBTQ+青年如何将自己视为更广泛社区中高度个性化的成员。这些发现凸显了社交媒体在LGBTQ+青年身份发展中扮演的复杂角色。内讨论的影响。
Social media provides Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) youth with daily access to a broader sociocultural dialogue that may shape narrative identity development. Through in-depth narrative interviews, this study sought to understand the lived experiences of 11 LGBTQ+ undergraduates (age range = 19-23) building narrative identities in the cultural context of social media and the role of social media within this process. Interviews were analyzed using an interpretative, individual analysis of personal stories. These experiences were then compared and contrasted through thematic analysis to identify four shared narrative themes. Narratives of merging safe spaces highlight how LGBTQ+ youth now have regular access to safe environments online/offline which facilitate more secure identity development. Narratives of external identity alignment describe social media as a tool for LGBTQ+ youth to seek out identities that match their preexisting sense of self. Narratives of multiple context-based identities encapsulate how adolescents' identity markers are multiple and invoked in a context-dependent manner. Finally, narratives of individuality and autonomy characterize how LGBTQ+ youth perceive themselves as highly individualized members of a wider community. These findings highlight the complex role social media plays within LGBTQ+ youth identity development. The implications are discussed within.