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Queer Mediated Practices as a Method to Center and Sustain Critical Health and Media Literacies

In: The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy
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A. Nick Vera Ph.D. Candidate, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

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Vanessa L. Kitzie Associate Professor, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

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Travis L. Wagner Lecturer, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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Abstract

Queer communities experience challenges when accessing accurate and comprehensive health information. These challenges span across media and information environments and threaten queer health promotion. This paper explored how 11 queer community health workers (chw s) in a Southeastern US state respond to, subvert, and resist these challenges when creating digital health information resources for their queer communities. This longitudinal action research occurred over two years and included multiple qualitative data types. We analyzed these data using qualitative coding, following deductive and inductive strategies. Findings demonstrate how queer chw s: 1) identified risks and barriers to health promotion their communities experienced; 2) created health information resources that proactively guarded against risks and reactively resisted barriers; 3) borrowed content, format, and logic from other digital media sources, remixing and repurposing them in ways relevant to their communities. Findings denote implications for decentering deficit-based approaches to framing the health and media literacies of queer populations.

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