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DESCRIPTION:Mainstreaming Gays: Beyond Queer Niche\n\nThis talk is part of 
 the REAL TALK series\, co-organized by the Women's Center and the Women's\,
  Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program.  \n\n \n\nIn this talk\, Dr. Ng dr
 aws on her  book Mainstreaming Gays: Critical Convergences of Queer Media\,
  Fan Cultures\, and Commercial Television (Rutgers UP\, 2023) to ask: how h
 as the mainstreaming of LGBTQ content and producers occurred\, and what has
  it meant for media production and culture more broadly? Through the lens o
 f scholarship on convergence culture\, media platforms\, and production\, s
 he identifies multiple converging trends: the emergence of digital media\, 
 the rising influence of fan cultures\, and increasing interest in LGBTQ nar
 ratives within commercial media. Certain U.S. television networks played ke
 y roles via not only their linear programming\, but also through bringing i
 n a new cohort of queer digital content creators and facilitating new space
 s for queer interaction online. Exemplifying significant shifts from legacy
  media to the streaming era\, these developments constituted the ground fro
 m which recent developments for LGBTQ content and queer sociality online ha
 ve emerged. Yet\, as both current programming decisions by streaming servic
 es and ongoing culture wars demonstrate\, substantial integrations into the
  mainstream have not fully countered continuing precarities for queer expre
 ssion and participation.\n\n \n\nEve Ng is an Associate Professor and the A
 ssociate Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Media Arts and Studi
 es\, and a core faculty member in the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Stud
 ies Program at Ohio University. She completed a Ph.D. in Communication at t
 he University of Massachusetts-Amherst\, and her scholarship examines LGBTQ
  media\, digital cultures\, and constructions of national identity. Besides
  Mainstreaming Gays\, she is also the author of Cancel Culture: A Critical 
 Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2022).
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LOCATION:Women's Center\, 403 Baker University Center
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SUMMARY:Mainstreaming Gays: Beyond Queer Niche
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