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Summary:

"The Two Revolutions explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present. Through extensive archival research and media archeology, Avery Dame-Griff reconstructs the manifold digital networks of transgender activists, cross-dressing computer hobbyists, and others interested in gender nonconformity who incited the second revolution of the title: the ascendance of "transgender" as an umbrella identity in the mid-1990s. Dame-Griff argues that digital communications sparked significant momentum within what would become the transgender movement, but also further cemented existing power structures. Covering both a historical period that is largely neglected within the history of computing, and the poorly understood role of technology in queer and trans social movements, The Two Revolutions offers a new understanding of both revolutions--the internet's early development and the structures of communication that would take us to today's tipping point of trans visibility politics. Through a history of how trans people online exploited different digital infrastructures in the early days of the internet to build a community, The Two Revolutions tells a crucial part of trans history itself." -- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Laying the foundation
• Dialing into the revolution : the bulletin board system
• Out of the cybercloset, into the cyberstreets : gender community spaces on AOL and beyond
• Politics and "petty useless bickering" : transgender Usenet and the emergence of "cisgender"
• Always on : information, circulation, and the world wide web
• Becoming "obsolete in your own lifetime" : membership declines and generation gaps
• Transgender in the platform era
• Conclusion: Owning our history.

Author/Creator:

Dame-Griff, Avery , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The two revolutions: a history of the transgender internet [by Dame-Griff, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Two revolutions [by Dame-Griff, A.] (New York : New York University Press, [2023] — ISBN 9781479818303; LCCN 2022050022; OCLC Number 1374489678)

Related Series:

Queer/Trans/Digital

NYU Press scholarship online

Subjects:

Transgender people — United States

Online social networks — United States

LGBTQ+ social media — United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 15, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations.

Call Numbers:

HQ77.95.U6 D364 2023eb

ISBNs:

1479818321 (electronic bk.)
9781479818327 (electronic bk.)
9781479818341 (electronic bk.)
1479818348 (electronic bk.)
9781479818303 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781479818310 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1378934003