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Queer digital cultures

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posted on 2023-06-09, 14:59 authored by Kate O'RiordanKate O'Riordan
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from subcultural to mainstream politics; from utopian political aspirations (Afrofuturism; cyberfeminism; cyberqueer) to commercialization; and from identity play and performance to consumer authentication. It concludes by drawing out the contradictory dimensions of queer digital culture which both exacerbate forms of oppression and offer liberatory trajectories. Alongside the rise of new forms of heteroactivism, commodified identities, and ubiquitous but unequal digital access, LGBTQ+ digital media continues to offer the promise of solidarity and intervention in relation to social justice.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Page range

185-198

Pages

254.0

Book title

The Cambridge companion to queer studies

Place of publication

Cambridge

ISBN

9781108699396

Series

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Department affiliated with

  • Media and Film Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Humanities Lab Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • No

Editors

Siobhan B Somerville

Legacy Posted Date

2018-09-10

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-12-02

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-09-08

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