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That led me to wonder: what’s life like for youth who don’t have easy access to queer communities and resources typically associated with cities through out the United States? Where, when, and how do youth in the rural United States acquire the language for their queer senses of self? And with the rapid but unequal incorporation of digital media into the lives of youth and their support agencies, what difference does the Internet’s increasing presence-and presumed ubiquity-make to these youth negotiating their sense of sexuality and gender ? My first book, In Your Face: Stories From the Lives of Queer Youth (Routledge Press), concentrated on contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-identifying (LGBT) youth experiences in the United States. My single-authored work takes up interests in how we do ethnographically-informed media research and the implications of media in the lives of those who have limited access to it or contribute to information and data economies in ways that often go unnoticed. I’ve collaborated on research projects that range from looking at the practices of “jumping”-illegitimate check-ins at places a player could not physically be-among locative media Foursquare fans how college students use the television program “Glee” as a transmedia object in their everyday life and analyzing online lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) online advocacy campaigns, like the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying campaign launched on YouTube in 2010, as forms of “queer infrastructure” that extend-but also confound-brick and mortar non-profit advocacy groups less equipped to use the viral capacity of the Internet. I study people’s everyday uses of technologies, particularly among people with limited or marginalized access to digital media and the internet. I maintain a faculty post in the School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies, at Indiana University. Safra Center for Ethics and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. I’m a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR and a Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, affiliated with E.J.