[Air-L] Work on "the digital closet"

Evelina Liliequist evelina.liliequist at umu.se
Mon Sep 7 22:48:03 PDT 2015


Thank you, yes Mary L Gray’s book is my bible :)
I’ll look into the other recommendations, thank you a lot!

/Evelina

8 sep 2015 kl. 00:41 skrev Michael Faris <michaeljfaris at gmail.com<mailto:michaeljfaris at gmail.com>>:

Evelina,

I’ll second Mary Gray’s book — fantastic!

You might also look into David Phillips’s 2002 essay “Negotiating the Digital Closet” (and probably his other work). Some of the contributors to his and O’Riordan’s collection _Queer Online_ use the phrase as well. Gorkemli has used the phrase in terms of lesbian and gay activism online in Turkey. Jonathan Alexander and Elizabeth Losh’s chapter "A YouTube of One’s Own?’: ‘Coming Out’ Videos as Rhetorical Action” in the collection _LGBT Identity and New Online Media_ might also be useful.

Dr. Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor
Technical Communication and Rhetoric
English Department
Texas Tech University
http://michaeljfaris.com/blog

On Sep 7, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Samantha Shorey <sshorey at uw.edu<mailto:sshorey at uw.edu>> wrote:

Hi Evelina,

Have you read Mary Gray's *Out in the Country*? Her work on digital youth
and queer culture in rural areas of the U.S.A. is really fantastic (and I
think influenced by Sedgwick.)

Best,
Samantha

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Samantha Shorey
PhD student, Department of Communication
University of Washington
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twitter: @SamShorey


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Hi everyone!

I?m working on a paper about SNS in rural areas of Sweden and I use the
term digital closet (transferring Sedgwick Kosowskys closet-metaphore into
a digital arena), and I was just wondering if there are any major (or
minor) works in later years that have used this term? It?s so clever, I
can?t really believe that I would be the first :)

Grateful for all recommendations and tips,
Evelina Liliequist

Postgraduate student Ethnology, Digital humanities
Department of Culture and Media Studies, Ume? University

Ume? University
SE-901 87 Ume?
Sweden

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