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- The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
- The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Genealogies
- Part II Confluences
- Part III Representation
- Chapter 8 Queer Poetics
- Chapter 9 Queer Narrative
- Chapter 10 Trace a Vanishing, or Queer Performance Study
- Chapter 11 Queer and Trans Studies in Pop Culture
- Chapter 12 Queer Digital Cultures
- Part IV Key Words
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
- References
Chapter 12 - Queer Digital Cultures
from Part III - Representation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2020
- The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
- The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Genealogies
- Part II Confluences
- Part III Representation
- Chapter 8 Queer Poetics
- Chapter 9 Queer Narrative
- Chapter 10 Trace a Vanishing, or Queer Performance Study
- Chapter 11 Queer and Trans Studies in Pop Culture
- Chapter 12 Queer Digital Cultures
- Part IV Key Words
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
- References
Summary
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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- The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies , pp. 185 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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