FWD: Call for chapters: Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities

Call for Chapters (edited book)

Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities
Edited by Kate O'Riordan and David J Philips

Introduction
This edited collection will bring together crucial examinations of the
intersecting fields of sexuality and the internet, and will provide an
overarching contextualisation and consolidation of cyber/queer
practices and theories.

In the early to mid-1990s, the repercussions of queer theory were being
engaged across academic feminism and lesbian and gay studies. At the
same time, the internet was emerging as a key structuring device for
academic networks, and as an important area of study. With the advent
of the commercial web in 1994 the internet intersected with popular
culture, and key questions of modernity - identity, community,
governance, time and space - intersected with the web as it unfolded
across multiple social domains. Whilst the mid-1990s wasn't the
beginning of internet research, cybercultural studies, or queer, it was
a period of sustained attention and excitement in relation to identity
and the web. Since then, there has been intense collision and
collaboration between queer theory and cyberculture, as the imagined
ideal queer subject and the imagined ideal cybersubject came to occupy
the same ground.

Moving on from and challenging this formulation, the book aims both to
document queer internet practices and to limn their theoretical
implications at the intersection of the fields of queer, technology,
and communication studies. Drawing on interviews with central actors,
analyses of internet activity, syntheses of critical debates, and both
new and historical research, the collection will provide both an
overview and an in depth analysis of these engagements.

We invite papers for consideration that complement either of the
proposed sections of the book:

Section 1 will provide theoretical contextualisations, histories and
political economies of queer/communication technology intersections.

Section 2 will showcase new and innovative work on queer sexuality and
the internet that offers new insight, whilst also showing evidence of a
rigorous connection to historical and theoretical context.

Suggested topics and themes include (but are not limited to):