[Air-L] ICA Panel CFP: Online LGBTQ Discourse + Rhetoric

[Yvonne Eadon]

Hello from Nanditha Narayanamoorthy and Yvonne Eadon, postdoctoral research
scholars from the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life
(CITAP) at UNC Chapel Hill. We are looking to convene a 6-paper panel for
the LGBTQ Studies Interest Group at ICA 2023 in Toronto.

The panel seeks to bring together papers that examine online discourses and
rhetoric around LGBTQ+ communities on social media platforms from a variety
of disciplines, methodologies, and cultural contexts. We invite papers that
not only investigate the ways in which virtual queer communities converge
and communicate online in the creation of personal and collective
identities, but also how they are broadly represented on platforms through
the rhetoric of violence, surveillance, conspiracy theories, and far-right
nationalism. Emphasizing questions of power, discursive world-building, and
social inequalities in relation to digital LGBTQIA+ communities, this panel
seeks to foster conversation among scholars around the world by centering
queer and trans communities, interrogating and broadening the extant
narratives around online discourse on queer and trans experiences. We are
particularly interested in papers that bring intersectional perspectives to
the discursive study of sex, sexuality, gender, and intimacy using
de/anti/postcolonial, and queer/trans/non-binary frameworks. Papers that
take an intersectional and comparative approach from the Global North and
South are particularly welcome. Submissions are welcome, but not limited to:


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   queer world-building through gaming, alternate reality games (ARGs), fan
   fiction, or other means
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   digital queer resistance, activism, and solidarity
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   virtual queer communities on social media platforms (TikTok, Facebook,
   Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr)
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   Far-right communities formed around anti-LGBTQIA+ discourses (e.g., Libs
   of TikTok)
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   rhetoric of hate and cultures of harm against LGBTQIA+ groups
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   conspiracy theories by and about queer communities
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   discourse on privacy and surveillance for LGBTQIA+ communities
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   intra- and inter-community conflicts
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   gendered approaches to the recent public health crisis


Submissions can be sent to nanditha at unc.edu by October 20, 2022. Please
include a separate 250-word abstract and short author biography. If you
know others who might be interested, please share!


-- 
Yvonne M. Eadon, MLIS, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life <http://citap.unc.edu/>
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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