User:Audrat09/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1: LGBTQ+ Organizational Communication Topic 1

 * Section Overview

This will include sections like LGBTQ+ workers and policies, LGBTQ+ organizing, sex work as well as queer economic justice. While researching, it was a little difficult to find certain articles for specific subtopics but overall I was able to find everything I needed. With my buddies, we brainstormed which topics we would cover individually and what kind of articles we should look for.


 * Topic Focus

For this section, I focused on LGBTQ+ workers, specifically how queer people navigate going against traditional families and in turn creating their own. This is important because it's being a part of an organization (the workplace) and how we can create safe spaces for queer workers.


 * Source(s)

The article I chose, A Language Convergence/Meaning Divergence Analysis Exploring How LGBTQ+ and Single Employees and Single Employees Manage Traditional Family Expectations in the Workplace, is great for this topic. I chose it because it emphasizes the difficulties of navigating traditional expectations as a queer person and how they work efficiently despite this. Dixon & Doughtery (2014) have created a great article because it talks about the vast difference of being straight and/or cisgender in the workplace versus being transgender and/or gay. It discusses work and family balance and goes over the strengths and weaknesses of the study itself.

Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)

One article I've made a point to link is LGBT+ employment discrimination in the U.S. This is relevant to my topic because the focus is on LGBTQ+ workers and the troubles they have faced due to their identity. We should link this to the Org Comm page.

Option 2: LGBTQ+ Organizational Communication Topic 2
For this section, I focused on LGBTQ+ organizing, specifically nonprofit organizations and their impact on social media and society as a whole. This is crucial to know about as the article mentions that we are seeing many anti-LGBTQ+ laws put into place and organizations are the main ones providing safe spaces still, such as GLAAD or The Trevor Project.
 * Section Overview
 * (See Topic 1 Overview)
 * Topic Focus
 * Topic Focus
 * Source(s)
 * I analyzed the article "Virality of Social Change Messages on Facebook: A Study of Advocacy and Relationship Building Strategies of LGBTQ+ Advocacy Organizations." This is a great article because it discusses the importance of nonprofit organizations for the queer and transgender community- especially in the face of homophobic/transphobic policies or laws. Mazid (2020) compares the difference of promotions of LGBTQ+ organizations on Facebook specifically.
 * I analyzed the article "Virality of Social Change Messages on Facebook: A Study of Advocacy and Relationship Building Strategies of LGBTQ+ Advocacy Organizations." This is a great article because it discusses the importance of nonprofit organizations for the queer and transgender community- especially in the face of homophobic/transphobic policies or laws. Mazid (2020) compares the difference of promotions of LGBTQ+ organizations on Facebook specifically.

Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)

An article I believe would be beneficial to this topic is the Wiki page on "The Trevor Project." The Trevor Project focuses on the rights and safety, especially mental health, of LGBTQ+ youth. We should link this to the Org. Comm. page.

Option 3: LGBTQ+ Organizational Communication Topic 3

 * Section Overview
 * (See Topic 1 Overview)
 * Topic Focus
 * For this section, I chose to analyze queer sex work and economic justice. This discusses the importance of feminism and the effect of gender/sexuality on sex work and the economy. It analyzes how we can create safer spaces for queer sex workers and queer people in general.
 * Source(s)
 * I analyzed "Sex Work, Queer Economic Justice, and Communicative Ethics" by Carly Fabian (2021) . It talks about impacts on the sex industry especially for queer people in sex work and tackles the issue of substance abuse and poverty in the LGBTQ+ community. It also emphasizes the difference between nonconsensual sex or sex trafficking between sex work.
 * Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)
 * A great article that is relevant to this topic is Wiki's "Transgender Sex Workers." This article is crucial to this topic because transgender sex workers are at higher risk than cisgender sex workers due to discrimination and violence. We should link this to the org comm page.
 * I analyzed "Sex Work, Queer Economic Justice, and Communicative Ethics" by Carly Fabian (2021) . It talks about impacts on the sex industry especially for queer people in sex work and tackles the issue of substance abuse and poverty in the LGBTQ+ community. It also emphasizes the difference between nonconsensual sex or sex trafficking between sex work.
 * Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)
 * A great article that is relevant to this topic is Wiki's "Transgender Sex Workers." This article is crucial to this topic because transgender sex workers are at higher risk than cisgender sex workers due to discrimination and violence. We should link this to the org comm page.
 * Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)
 * A great article that is relevant to this topic is Wiki's "Transgender Sex Workers." This article is crucial to this topic because transgender sex workers are at higher risk than cisgender sex workers due to discrimination and violence. We should link this to the org comm page.
 * A great article that is relevant to this topic is Wiki's "Transgender Sex Workers." This article is crucial to this topic because transgender sex workers are at higher risk than cisgender sex workers due to discrimination and violence. We should link this to the org comm page.