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This volume explores how so-called digital natives of GenZ use media in the crafting of generational beliefs and representational practices around sex, gender, and sexuality. Through qualitative chapters of critical, ethnographic, discursive, and textual analysis, an international team of authors explore mass media representation; queerness and visibility among the generation; GenZ feminism on social media and reactions to it; how GenZ learns about sexuality through various media; and gender and media effects. While considering global implications, the authors analyze experiences and points of view from various contexts, including Chinese social media, Korean mass- and social-media, Indian movies, Sri Lankan image-based social media, Japanese movies, Turkey and mediated visibility, Norway and online/offline romantic relationships, a UK-based genderqueer gaming celebrity, and multiple topics and contexts within the United States. This accessible and varied volume will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in social and mass media across a wide range of platforms and practices, digital culture, youth culture and human development, sex education, sex and gender studies, and communication and culture change.

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Rachel R. Reynolds is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Graduate Programs in Communication, Culture & and Media at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. She works on theories of sexual violence and globalization, including approaches to the political economy of sexual violence as an instrumental element within television production. Dacia Pajé is an Assistant Professor at Providence College, USA. Her research agenda focuses on the televised construction and audience reception of sexual violence and rape culture, with particular attention to crime and legal dramas. Sienna Medina is an independent researcher in the Midwest USA. She researches (anti)feminist discourses in popular culture. Recently, she has focused on depictions and discussions of sexual violence both in mainstream media and pornography. John Gigante is a Ph.D. student at Drexel University, USA, in the Communication, Culture and Media program. His research focuses on media representations of necropolitical domains, with a particular focus on mobility infrastructure.

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