Lexington Books
Pages: 160
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-7936-1346-2 • Hardback • August 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-1348-6 • Paperback • December 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-7936-1347-9 • eBook • August 2020 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
Patrick M. Johnson is assistant professor and program coordinator for the Department of Communication at Indiana University Northwest.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Identity in the Digital Age
Chapter 2 – Creating a Hegemonic LGBT*Q Culture
Chapter 3 – Testing the Waters: Coming out in a Hypermediated Age
Chapter 4 – Let’s Get Political: The Importance of Political Speech in LGBT*Q Media
Chapter 5 – A Safe Space Online? Discrimination, Persecution, & Self-Policing
Chapter 6 – Conclusion: The More Things Change, The More They Remain the Same
Chapter 7 – Afterword: A “KINDR” Online Environment?
Coming out Queer Online: Identity, Affect, and the Digital Closet addresses how difficult it can be for LGBT*Q+ people to come out online. Some may be scared of perceptions and how their family and loved ones may receive it.... [R]eaders will be able to see that there is representation with the LGBT*Q+ group and will be able to see how the digital age has helped change that for the better.
— Communication Booknotes Quarterly
The Digital Closet: LGBT*Q Identities and Affective Politics in a Social Media Age is a timely and important key text in the current political climate. This book advances ways of knowing about the significant role of media technologies that shape and reshape social and performative negotiations of LGBT*Q identities, performances, and politics. In addition, this book creates a space to rethink a constantly shifting idea of the LGBT*Q communities as the collective for the future as the hopeful destination. — Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico
Written with a knack for clarity, Patrick Johnson offers an important read of social media discourses and their impact in the LBT*Q+ lifeworlds. This book offers us a way into an on-going conversation about the tense relationship between community ethics and LGBT*Q+ identity formation. Johnson’s multi-pronged, diverse, and dynamic approach to studying social media, exemplifies how this site of discourse is a wildly enriching and exclusionary platform.— Jeffrey Q. McCune, Washington University in St. Louis