When the Internet absorbs television: Audience practices, engagement with content and social change in Brazil by Flavio Garcia-Da-Rocha

“…The study, which brings a perspective of the Global South, involved six months of immersive fieldwork in the city of Rio de Janeiro investigating viewing practices and content choices of young adults who have had access to the Internet for at least five years. …”
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The Internet as a site of decreasing cultural homophobia in Association Football: An online response by fans to the coming out of Thomas Hitzlsperger by Jamie Cleland, R. Magrath, T. Kian

“…This article analyses 5,128 comments from 35 prominent football fan online message boards located across the United Kingdom and 978 online comments in response to a Guardian newspaper article regarding the decision by former German international footballer, Thomas Hitzlsperger, to publicly come out as gay in January 2014. Adopting the theoretical framework of inclusive masculinity theory, the findings demonstrate almost universal inclusivity through the rejection of homophobia and frequent contestation of comments that express orthodox views. …”
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