Coming Out Queer Online
Identity, Affect, and the Digital Closet
Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1348-6 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1348-6 (ISBN)
The Digital Closet argues that social media is a dominant force in the lives of LGBT*Q individuals. Through examining archives, talking with individuals, and analyzing social media feeds, the author highlights the many ways that social media acts as both a freeing as well as an oppressive environment for many within the LGBT*Q community.
The Digital Closet: LGBT*Q Identities and Affective Politics in a Social Media Age discusses how LGBT*Q individuals occupy a precarious space within society as a marginalized community in the United States. They are afforded representation in some venues yet are often invisible. Through social media, LGBT*Q individuals have sought new ways to forge communities and increase their visibility. This rise in visibility afforded individuals means to seek out and distribute information to help in the coming out process. Combining archival research, observation, interviews, and visual discourse analysis of social media feeds, the Patrick Johnson examines the role social media plays in expressions of LGBT*Q politics, culture, and coming out. Despite the messages not having changed fundamentally, the improved access to LGBT*Q stories have amplified the ones that are sent. Johnson argues that this is positive in acting as intervention for LGBT*Q suicide rates, hate crimes, and discrimination from the outside. However, the author also contends that it has vastly re-centered and prioritized white, cisgender, masculinity, obscuring other stories and creating potentially dangerous environments for POC, women, trans* individuals, and gay men who do not meet this high standard of masculinity. Scholars of gender studies, media studies, and queer theory will find this book particularly interesting.
The Digital Closet: LGBT*Q Identities and Affective Politics in a Social Media Age discusses how LGBT*Q individuals occupy a precarious space within society as a marginalized community in the United States. They are afforded representation in some venues yet are often invisible. Through social media, LGBT*Q individuals have sought new ways to forge communities and increase their visibility. This rise in visibility afforded individuals means to seek out and distribute information to help in the coming out process. Combining archival research, observation, interviews, and visual discourse analysis of social media feeds, the Patrick Johnson examines the role social media plays in expressions of LGBT*Q politics, culture, and coming out. Despite the messages not having changed fundamentally, the improved access to LGBT*Q stories have amplified the ones that are sent. Johnson argues that this is positive in acting as intervention for LGBT*Q suicide rates, hate crimes, and discrimination from the outside. However, the author also contends that it has vastly re-centered and prioritized white, cisgender, masculinity, obscuring other stories and creating potentially dangerous environments for POC, women, trans* individuals, and gay men who do not meet this high standard of masculinity. Scholars of gender studies, media studies, and queer theory will find this book particularly interesting.
Patrick M. Johnson is assistant professor and program coordinator for the Department of Communication at Indiana University Northwest.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Identity in the Digital Age
Chapter 2 – Creating a Hegemonic LGBT*Q Culture
Chapter 3 – Testing the Waters: Coming out in a Hypermediated Age
Chapter 4 – Let’s Get Political: The Importance of Political Speech in LGBT*Q Media
Chapter 5 – A Safe Space Online? Discrimination, Persecution, & Self-Policing
Chapter 6 – Conclusion: The More Things Change, The More They Remain the Same
Chapter 7 – Afterword: A “KINDR” Online Environment?
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.08.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Lexington Studies in Communication and Storytelling |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 154 x 219 mm |
Gewicht | 227 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-7936-1348-6 / 1793613486 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-1348-6 / 9781793613486 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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