BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations 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). DTEND:20241023T170000Z DTSTAMP:20241122T185719Z DTSTART:20241023T160000Z LOCATION:Women's Center\, 403 Baker University Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mainstreaming Gays: Beyond Queer Niche UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_47729573048279 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/mainstreaming-gays-beyond-queer-niche END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR