[Commlist] IJoC Publishes a Special Section on Queer Cultures in Digital Asia

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Queer
Cultures in Digital Asia
What are the challenges and opportunities offered to queer communities and
practices by social media and digital platforms such as Twitter, Instagram,
Weibo, Grindr, Blued, Butterfly, and more, in the context of Asia?
Inspired by Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (Berry, Martin, Yue, &
Spigel, 2003), published in 2003, and the subsequent two decades of critical
scholarship on Queer Asia, this Special Section on Queer Cultures in Digital
Asia aims to renew our critical interrogation of the intersection between
queerness and Asia at a time when digital media and platforms are
inseparable from social lives. Asia provides a complicated context for the
development and survival of queer communities as social norms and laws
regarding same-sex relationships and gender transition vary across regions.

Guest-edited by Lik Sam Chan, Jia Tan, and Elija Cassidy, this Special
Section examines how contemporary queer lives are platformized,
investigating an array of issues from amateur gay porn cultures, lesbian and
gay dating apps, trans men's self-representation, to Boys' Love fandom, as
well as how these are mediated through specific digital platforms.

While platformed digital media undoubtedly offers new opportunities for
queer communities and practices, community-based regulations and internal
stratification and discrimination also close off certain forms of queer
expression and queer potential. Contributors to this Special Section offer
empirical analyses of queer digital cultures, platforms, practices, and
communities from one or multiple Asian regions. They highlight how regional
specificity has contributed to the manifestation of queer practices and
cultures. With new digital phenomena emerging—live streaming, games,
robots and AI, non-fungible tokens, health tracking—and social and legal
environments evolving, Queer Cultures in Digital Asia will always be in a
state of flux. This Special Section can hopefully open further conversations
about digital media and queerness among scholars working across a range of
diverse Asian contexts.
   We invite you to read these articles that published in the International
Journal of Communication on March 19, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read
the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!
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 Queer Cultures in Digital Asia—Introduction
Lik Sam Chan, Jia Tan, Elija Cassidy

Digital Sexual Publics: Understanding Do-It-Yourself Gay Porn and Lived
Experiences of Sexuality in China
Runze Ding, Lin Song

Attention Economy, Neoliberalism, and Homonormative Masculinity in Amateur
Gay Porn Circuits on Twitter: The Case of Manila and Hong Kong
Ruepert Jiel Dionisio Cao

"I Look at How They Write Their Bio and I Judge From There": Language and
Class Among Middle-Class Queer Filipino Digital Socialities in Manila 
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
 Strategic, Conflicted, and Interpellated: Hong Kong and Chinese Queer
Women's Use of Identity Labels on Lesbian Dating Apps Carman K. M. Fung

Tracing Dystopian Insta-Emotions Among Hong Kong Trans Men Denise 
Tse-Shang Tang
Participatory Censorship and Digital Queer Fandom: The Commercialization of
Boys' Love Culture in China
Yiming Wang, Jia Tan
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Larry Gross, Editor Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Lik Sam Chan, Jia Tan, and Elija Cassidy, Guest Editors

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC
ranks 9th among all Humanities journals and 9th among all Communications
journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access
scholarly publication at the highest level.


Annenberg Press
(annpress /at/ usc.edu)
International Journal of Communication
USC Annenberg Press
Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/
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