Participate in a QGLBT Community Research Project:

Queer Youth on the Net: Identity, Agency and Community in the Landscapes of Computing

1. Significance of media in everyday lives of queer youth, social network formation, access to community and knowledge;
2. Participatory culture, role of technological know-how and savvy tech use by queer youth
3. Strategies for social networking that shape how many youth learn community and tech stuff, on the fly, from other youth;
4. Community-based specifics concerning the knowledge access needs of queer youth;
   
5. Role of race, class, dis/ability, gender and the like in shaping queer youth media use and involvement in communities, online and off;
6. Online media development practices of agencies that cater to queer youth, and/or LBGT community organizations;
7. Insight into the role media play in how youth learn to be queer;
8. Understanding of the role of media in relation to the continuing noxious impact of homophobia, and other forms of discrimination (e.g., gender), in the everyday lives of queer youth.

In this research, reaching a diversity of people from all locations is a very high priority

If you would like to participate in a 1-2 hour absolutely confidential interview we would like to hear from you!

This research has been approved by the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board, certificate # B02-0318