Social media affect on lgbtq community
Social Media’s Positives and Pitfalls for LGBTQ+ Youth
For Gay communities worldwide, social media platforms have become decisive spaces in providing acceptance, connection, and access to important resources. While the internet and social media platforms have the potential to create positive experiences for LGBTQ+ individuals, there are also significant downsides, particularly related to body image and cyberbullying.
Dr. Eliza Byard, Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), emphasizes the impact of the internet on adolescent people's lives, especially Diverse youth who are highly connected online.
“The Internet impacts almost all aspects of our lives, but is particularly entrenched in the lives of youth, who are the most related people online in our society. LGBT youth maintain to face extraordinary obstacles in their day-to-day lives whether at school or online, but the Internet can be a valuable source of information and support when they own no one or nowhere else left to shift to. As social media evolve, so must our efforts to serve LGBT youth to ensure their safety, health, and well-being.”
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Monetizing Hate: How 100+ Major Brands Are Bankrolling Anti-LGBTQ Extremism on YouTube
Ekō — November 2023
This hard-hitting uncover from corporate accountability team Ekō details how ads for dozens of major brands, including Nike, J.Crew and L’Oréal, are appearing next to videos inciting violence and hatred against the LGBTQ+ community. The findings underscore significant failings in YouTube’s monetization and moderation systems, as successfully as reputational and business risks to some of the world’s biggest brands. The authors of the report are calling on advertisers to take a principled stand against funding hate and disinformation through a host of measures including demanding access to detailed information about ad placements, and enforcing business contracts regarding brand protection standards. The report authors are also demanding behavior from YouTube to bolster moderation and demonetize harmful channels, in addition to urging transparency interventions from US policymakers. YouTube’s Collective Guidelines prohibit anti-LGBTQ+ abhor speech and harmful content, however the report shows the policy isn’t existence properly enforced. Researchers analyzed 13 monetized videos by well
At a recent Institution of Data Science event, four panelists discussed how social media can exacerbate transphobia, homophobia, and other types of discrimination.
On social media platforms like TikTok, users can easily disseminate information to millions of people on a daily basis. And thanks to this capacity, transphobia, misinformation, and hate speech contain spread rapidly in such spaces.
At the same time, extremism and discrimination aren’t new. At a recent panel organized by the University of Data Science, professor Jess Reia, who uses they/them pronouns, emphasized this. “Social media platforms generate inequalities that already exist in society,” they said.
The event, titled “Every Numbers Point Tells a Story,” brought together four data science researchers and practitioners to discuss the intersection between data science, social media, and the noticeability and safety of LGBTQ individuals.
The speakers focused in particular on the algorithms behind features such as TikTok’s “For You” page, which might seem innocuous but in fact maintain individuals in a bubble and often push them toward extremism.
“I think the misperception
Research snapshot: Examining the impact of negative media coverage on LGBTQ+ young adults
Posted by Mary-Lou Watkinson on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 in News Story, Research.
Kirsty Clark, assistant professor of medicine, health, and society, studies mental health disparities impacting LGBTQ+ populations through her lab. The Clark Lab then develops evidence-based interventions to disrupt the course of such disparities.
Clark recently published research in JAMA Pediatrics that explores the effects of negative news and media coverage on the intensity of suicidal thoughts in LGBTQ+ adolescent adults. Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Clark shares the results of her research, the impact it may hold on the Queer community, and implications for public policy.
Q: What issue does your research address?
A: Our research addresses the role of exposure to negative news and media—like a news headline, a television advertisement, or a social media post—on the heightened risk for suicidal thinking among LGBTQ+ young adults in Tennessee. In the past not many years in the U.S., over 1,000 bills have been introduced at the state level targeting the rights and visibility of LG
LGBTQ+ community facing increased social media bias, author says
LGBTQ+ social media content creators are increasingly complaining about their posts being taken down, a practice labeled as “the digital closet” by researcher Alexander Monea.
Monea, who is a professor of English and cultural studies at George Mason University, spent two years digging through data sets and tracking down other anecdotes from users of major social media platforms who reported being censored, silenced or demonetized in different ways to draft his book, “The Digital Closet,” which details the policing of online spaces focused on the Homosexual community.
“It has historically been the case that these companies never release damning information unless absolutely compelled to,” said Monea.
Monea's operate is an example of the growing field of research that focuses on how LGBTQ+ people, including youth, sex workers and other internet users, trial the internet in a different way than heterosexual people.
"Once the internet is largely controlled by a very few companies that all use an advertising model to drive their revenue, what you obtain is an over-policed sort of internet space," he