[Air-L] New Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media'

[Lukasz Szulc]

Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to announce the publication of the Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, edited by Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, and Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. It includes an introduction, 7 empirical articles and 5 forum pieces. They are all amazing! :) You can read the Special Issue here: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3

CONTENTS

Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media
Special Issue Editors: Yener Bayramo[1]glu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala

Original Articles

Transnational queer cultures and digital media: An introduction
YENER BAYRAMOGLU, [1] ŁUKASZ SZULC, AND RADHIKA GAJJALA

A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics
PENG QIAO AND YUQI HU

“Instagram is like a karela:” Transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India
TANVI KANCHAN

RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer authenticity and strategic Westernness
ZANE AUSTIN WILLARD AND RACHEL E. DUBROFSKY

Trans (on) YouTube: Localizing transnational narratives on two Polish trans YouTube channels
JOANNA CHOJNICKA

Glitchy transnationalism: When queer migrants meet the state online
HATIM RACHDI

“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay:” BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires
ESIHLE LUPINDO

What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community
BEATRICE MELIS, CHIARA PAOLINI, MARTA FIORAVANTI, AND DANIELE METILLI

Forum

The “aroma of citrus” as transnational queer digital culture: Girls’ Love webtoons in contemporary China
JAMIE J. ZHAO

When the homo deamon went digital: Writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora
B. CAMMINGA

“Middle East conflict in Berlin schools:” On the affectability of “fake news”
JIN HARITAWORN

“How do I put this gently?” Articulating the link between racial selectivity in the sexual market and neighborhood selection in the residential market of a global city
NICHOLAS BOSTON

Gay for pay: Homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape
SHARIF MOWLABOCUS

Very best,
Łukasz


Dr Łukasz Szulc<https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/%C5%82ukasz-szulc> (he/him)

Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

University of Manchester

UNITED KINGDOM

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

(2024) Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3

(2023) Culture is transnational. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779221131349

(2022) Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385211024117

(2020) Digital Gender Disidentifications: Beyond the Subversion Versus Hegemony Dichotomy and Toward Everyday Gender Practices. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15396