Queering Digital Cultures

Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London

An international symposium exploring how queer users and tech workers challenge the inequalities and exclusions of today's internet.

King's College London

The internet is increasingly regarded by users, regulators and NGOs as a public utility. The UN has gone so far as to call <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/11/07/the-internet-as-a-human-right" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">internet access a universal right</a>. But the internet is simultaneously seen as a technological infrastructure linked to – and leveraged for – capital production and accumulation. The Queering Digital Cultures symposium aims to explore what this tension between universal access and platform capitalism means for the sex and gender-based assumptions and exclusions generated by today’s internet. We will focus on how homophobia, sexism and transphobia are reproduced in contemporary digital culture and unpack how this intersects with existing inequalities and ‘digital divides’ around race, class and (dis)ability. We train our analytical lens on the ways that mainstream data production, consumption and circulation practices impact sex and gender minorities. We also consider how queer users, activists and tech workers challenge the inequalities and exclusions (re)produced in today’s internet.Working to understand these issues is crucial for the future of internet studies. Across its thirty-year history, the discipline has critiqued the ways in which digital technologies impact the social register of everyday life. Yet this intellectual project has failed to substantively consider the experiences of sex and gender minorities, and the resulting intersectional exclusions generated by and in today’s internet. Queering Digital Cultures brings together esteemed scholars who have made important contributions to addressing these blindspots. Wine reception to follow the event.Speakers:<a href="https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/our-research/access-our-research/find-a-researcher-or-supervisor/researcher-profile/?id=kalbury" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kath Albury</a> (Swinburne University of Technology)<a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/kevinguyan" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kevin Guyan</a> (University of Glasgow)<a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/chloe-locatelli" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chloé Locatelli</a> (King’s College London)<a href="https://www.purchase.edu/live/profiles/460-shaka-mcglotten" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Shaka McGlotten</a> (Purchase College-SUNY)<a href="https://english.gmu.edu/people/amonea" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alexander Monea</a> (George Mason University)<a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/gaspard-pelurson" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gaspard Pelurson</a> (King’s College London)Organisers: <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-zeena-feldman" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Zeena Feldman</a> and <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/jamie-hakim" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jamie Hakim</a>, King&#x27;s College LondonT﻿his event will be held in a hybrid format. For those able to travel to London, you can join us in person. For others, you can choose to attend remotely via Teams. Attendance in both forms is free but registration is essential.

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