Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era

Prologue: Introducing GenZ

Introduction. "Visibility and Inclusiveness around Sex, Gender and Sexuality as Central to GenZ Communities"

Part I. Mass Mediating GenZ: Representation in TV and Cinema

1. "We are Glamorous Women of Color Who Deserve a Sexy High School Life!" Reimaging Childhood Through Teen Comedy Television About Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Expression

2. Reclaiming the Witch: Crafting GenZ Affective Structures in Chilling Tales of Sabrina

3. Representations of Transgender Women in the Age of Generation Z: A Cross-Cultural Semiotic Analysis of Bollywood and Japanese Movies

4. "Worthy to be loved": GenMZ's engagement with Autism representation in Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Part II: Queering Social Media: Visibility, Platforms and Power from Audience to State

5. Let Us Play: Digital Campaigns toward Inclusion in Youth Sport

6. A Resurrection from the banned cringe social media Queen: Long live Guonfucius through House of Fandom and Prosumption

7. Day 206 of being a girl: Exploring How LGBTQ+ GenZ Influencers on TikTok Communicately Perform Gender Identity and Sexuality

8. Do I Look like a Woman to You?: Twitch, Irony, and the Female-Presenting Breast

9. "Niang Pao" Prohibition: Masculinity, GenZ, and the Regulation in China

10. Turkey's Neoliberal Islamist Policies and the Marginalization of the LGBT Community: Exploring Online Spaces and GenZ Gendered and Sexual Identity Activists

Part III. Feminist Subjectivity, Alliances and Backlash

11. How Did He Become a Feminist? The Subjectivation of Young Male Feminists in South Korean

12. "I want to get her too but no one knows that it happened to me": Tattoos of Medusa as a Symbol of Surviving Sexual Violence

13. Sexy Doesn't Equal Sexist: Depicting Women's Intersectional Empowerment on Instagram through the Eyes of GenZ

14. Youth perspectives: An assessment of victim blaming against women and girls in Northern, Sri Lanka

Part IV: Sexuality: Information, Education and Disclosure

15. Offline in the closet, online and out, then offline, out and proud: The online/offline-ness of teenagers' queer worldmaking

16. Digitally Performed: Adolescent Gender and Identity Development through Social Media

17. Turning Anxiety into Agency: Sexual Education Experiences and Information-Seeking of GenZ Women

Part V: Media Effects, Gender, and Sexual Scripts

18. The Uninhabited Informant: Popular Television and GenZ Sexual Scripts

19. Quantity, Quality and Effects of GenZ era Gender Minority Representations in Social Media Contexts - A Systematic Review

Index