[ecrea] New Book - Gaydar Culture

>Dear esteemed colleagues,
>
>Please forgive this unsolicited piece of self-promotion but I wanted 
>to alert you to the publication of my new book Gaydar Culture.
>
>I've pasted some publisher blurb below. A few of the topics covered 
>in the book include:
>
>- Grindr and 'digital cruising'
>- Gaydar, identity and user profiles
>- Public sex cultures on and offline
>- Bareback websites
>- Gay men's visual culture
>
>The book is available from 
><http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gaydar-Culture-Sharif-Mowlabocus/dp/0754675351/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283781930&sr=8-1>Amazon 
>or direct from the publisher's 
><http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675358%20>website - where you'll 
>receive a discount for a limited period.
>
> 
><http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675358>http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675358
>
>
>
>Many thanks
>
>Sharif Mowlabocus
>
>
>Gaydar Culture
>
>Popular culture has recognised urban gay men's use of the Web over 
>the last ten years, with gay Internet dating and Net-cruising 
>featuring as narrative devices in hit television shows. Yet to date, 
>the relationship between urban gay culture and digital media 
>technologies has received only limited attention. "Gaydar Culture" 
>explores the integration of specific techno-cultural practices 
>within contemporary gay male sub-culture. Taking British gay culture 
>as its primary interest, the book locates its critical discussion 
>within the wider global context of a  proliferating model of Western 
>'metropolitan' gay male culture. Focusing primarily on web-based 
>forms and practices in order to address the key issues of sexual and 
>gender identity, with a secondary emphasis on the attending themes 
>of sexual practice and sexual risk, its principal concern is the 
>impact that increasing levels of digital 'immersion' or 
>'integration' is having on these aspects of 'mainstream' gay male 
>culture. Making use of a series of case studies in the development 
>of a theoretical framework through which past, present and future 
>practices of digital immersion can be understood and critiqued, this 
>book constitutes a timely intervention into the fields of digital 
>media studies, cultural studies and the study of gender and sexuality.
>
>Dr. Sharif Mowlabocus
>Lecturer in Media and Digital Media Studies
>Dept. of Media and Film Studies
>University of Sussex
>Tel: 01273 876587
><mailto:(s.j.mowlabocus /at/ sussex.ac.uk)>(s.j.mowlabocus /at/ sussex.ac.uk)
>
>***OUT NOW****
>Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology & Embodiment in the Digital Age
>More details at:
><http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675358>http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675358
>
>Centre for Material Digital Culture:
><http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/>www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/
>
>Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network:
><http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/bssn>www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/bssn
>
>Blog
><http://creativemess.wordpress.com/>http://creativemess.wordpress.com/
>
>
>
>
>
>

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The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience.
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