Online Communities
dc.contributor.author | Haimson, Oliver L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-19T14:14:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-19T14:14:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn, SAGE Publications, March 2021, pp. 587-590 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781544393810 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/168410 | en |
dc.description.abstract | An online community is a group of people with shared identities or interests who use social technologies to connect and interact with each other. Since the early days of the Internet, online communities have been particularly important means for trans people to connect with similar others, explore identity, share resources, document transition, and work toward activism and advocacy. Some of these communities are for trans people broadly, while others focus on particular trans identities (e.g., trans women, nonbinary people, trans men) or particular identity facets or experiences that intersect with trans identities (e.g., race, disability status, age). Early Internet trans online communities involved high levels of anonymity, which enabled people to safely explore trans identities online. However, when many trans communities moved to social media sites, a new set of challenges emerged related to connections to one’s physical world persona, disclosure difficulties, convergence of multiple audiences, and difficulties of moderation and maintaining community boundaries. Future trans online communities would benefit from design processes that include trans people and communities, as well as technology designs that center trans experiences. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.subject | online communities | en_US |
dc.subject | activism | en_US |
dc.subject | communication | en_US |
dc.subject | community building | en_US |
dc.subject | social media | en_US |
dc.title | Online Communities | en_US |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/168410/1/HaimsonOnlineCommunities.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/1689 | |
dc.identifier.source | The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6552-4540 | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of HaimsonOnlineCommunities.pdf : Main article | |
dc.description.depositor | SELF | en_US |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Haimson, Oliver; 0000-0001-6552-4540 | en_US |
dc.working.doi | 10.7302/1689 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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