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Austin Maloco
Professor Rodrick
Queer Studies 115
19 September, 2016
Exercise 3: Does social media effect queer identity in a positive or negative effect.
Dadas, Caroline. "Messy Methods: Queer Methodological Approaches to Researching Social
Media." Computers and Composition, 40 (2016): 60-72. Critiquing and analyzing other
researchers works on marriage equality in social media outlets like facebook and
youtube, Dadas not only critiques the works of other researcher but also critiques the
approach to the research, and the theories about the other works about fellow researchers.
Overall the article was neutral towards the prompt, but is somewhat over scholarly for the
topic of queer identity. The article discussed mostly about the methods and approaches to
research, making it difficult to find any supporting arguments for the given prompt. Thus
this article would not be considered a good source for material since most of the material
discussed was not about queer identity
Rodriguez, Nathian Shae. "Communicating Global Inequalities: How LGBTI Asylum-specific
NGOs Use Social Media as Public Relations." Public Relations Review, 42.2 (2016):
322-332. This public relations review by Rodrigues, outlines how NGOs ,nongovernment
organizations, use social media as a public relations platform for refugees. Primarily
refugees who are seeking asylum from persecution, from their country of origin, by
identifying themselves as homosexual. The article continues on with data and research
from various sources and then analyzes and discusses the implications that can be drawn
from the data. The conclusion is that social media acts as a medium for information to be

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transmitted to NGOs and their affiliates as well as individuals seeking asylum from
prosecution of identification as a homosexual individual. Overall the article seems to be
for that social media has a positive impact on the queer community. Unfortunately though
this article has nothing to do with queer identity. This article would be a good source if
the prompt included the positive effects on the queer community rather than of social
media, due to research material and data.
Roth, Yoel. "Zero Feet Away: The Digital Geography of Gay Social Media." Journal of
Homosexuality, 63.3 (2016): 437-442. Roth first discusses about the user interface of a
website, Grindr, and how their could be a disconnect between the user and the online
reality of this user's persona. Potentially the the article discusses about the differences
interactions between gay men on online dating platforms or other social media outlets
and the interactions between gay men in real life. Overall the article seems to be neutral
to the argument if social media has a positive or negative effect or negative effect on
queer identity. Since the article is neutral this could be a good source to collect
information that is indifferent from the topic and use it for more information or maybe a
transition.