'That's not necessarily for them': LGBTIQ plus young people, social media platform affordances and identity curation
'That's not necessarily for them': LGBTIQ plus young people, social media platform affordances and identity curation
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DOI：
10.1177/0163443719846612
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发表时间：
2019-11-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Churchill, Brendan
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作者：
Hanckel, Benjamin;Vivienne, Son;Churchill, Brendan
女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者、酷儿、双性者和其他非异性恋和性别多样化（LGBTIQ+）的年轻人利用一系列数字媒体平台来探索身份，寻求支持和管理界限。然而，人们不太了解的是，他们如何在日常生活中的不同社交媒体平台上驾驭风险和回报。在这项研究中，我们借鉴了可供性的概念，以及最近的策展工作，研究了23个LGBTIQ+年轻人关于他们使用社交媒体的深度访谈。我们的研究结果显示了LGBTIQ+年轻人使用的平台的可供性，以及他们参与的背景，如何解释和告知使用的类型。这些做法-侧重于寻找、建立和促进支持-利用年轻人的社交媒体知识，他们在社交媒体上的情感体验从安全感、保障和控制感到恐惧、失望和愤怒。这些做法也有助于管理“为他们”（家庭，同事，朋友）和“不为他们”之间的界限。这项工作使我们的参与者能够降低风险，并绕过规范性的平台政策和规范，为超越自我的酷儿世界建设做出贡献。在这样做的时候，我们认为年轻人的社交媒体策展策略有助于他们的健康和福祉。
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other non-heterosexual and gender diverse (LGBTIQ+) young people utilise a range of digital media platforms to explore identity, find support and manage boundaries. Less well understood, however, is how they navigate risk and rewards across the different social media platforms that are part of their everyday lives. In this study, we draw on the concept of affordances, as well as recent work on curation, to examine 23 in-depth interviews with LGBTIQ+ young people about their uses of social media. Our findings show how the affordances of platforms used by LGBTIQ+ young people, and the contexts of their engagement, situate and inform a typology of uses. These practices - focused on finding, building and fostering support - draw on young people's social media literacies, where their affective experiences range from feelings of safety, security and control, to fear, disappointment and anger. These practices also work to manage boundaries between what is 'for them' (family, work colleagues, friends) and 'not for them'. This work allowed our participants to mitigate risk, and circumnavigate normative platform policies and norms, contributing to queer-world building beyond the self. In doing so, we argue that young people's social media curation strategies contribute to their health and well-being.