Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Journalism and Political Communication Unbound)

Billard, Thomas J

ISBN 10: 0197695434 / ISBN 13: 9780197695432

Published by Oxford University Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Journalism and Political Communication Unbound)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197695434
• ISBN 13: 9780197695432
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

In Voices for Transgender Equality, Thomas J Billard offers an insider's view into transgender activism during the first two years of the Trump administration. Drawing on ethnographic research at the National Center for Transgender Equality, Billard shows how these activists developed an unlikely blend of online and offline strategies to saturate a diverse ecology of national news outlets, local media outlets across the country, and both public and private conversations across multiple social media platforms with voices in support of their cause. Including rich storytelling and insightful analysis, Billard makes a compelling case of what it takes to make social and political change in a world transformed by digital media.

About the Author

Thomas J Billard is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and, by courtesy, the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. They are the founding Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies--the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender life--and Editor-in-Chief of the Center's flagship journal, the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. Billard is co-editor (with Silvio Waisbord) of Public Scholarship in Communication Studies.