Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age

Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9234-8597

Description

This book explores, through specific analysis of media representations, personal interviews, and historical research, how the digital environment perpetuates harmful and limiting stereotypes of queerness. Siebler argues that heteronormativity has co-opted queer representations, largely in order to sell goods, surgeries, and lifestyles, reinforcing instead of disrupting the masculine and feminine heterosexual binaries through capitalist consumption. Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age focuses on different identity populations (gay, lesbian, transgender) and examines the theories (queer, feminist, and media theories) in conjunction with contemporary representations of each identity group. In the twenty-first century, social media, dating sites, social activist sites, and videos/films, are primary educators of social identity. For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and transsexual peoples, these digital interactions help shape queer identities and communities.

ISBN

978-1-137-59950-6

Publication Date

5-31-2016

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan (Springer)

Keywords

LGBT identity, queer politics, digital age, queer theory, gender studies, media studies, LGBT Activism

Comments

University of Nebraska at Omaha's Dr. Kay Siebler wrote the chapter: Lesbian Chic in the Digital World.

Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age

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