[Commlist] Call for chapter proposals: Queerly Platformed

*Call for chapter proposals: */Queerly Platformed: LGBTQ Realities, 
Resistance, and Algorithmic Life in the Age of Social Media/

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*Title:*/Queerly Platformed: LGBTQ Realities, Resistance, and 
Algorithmic Life in the Age of Social Media/

*Call for Chapters*

*Queerly Platformed:*/LGBTQ Realities, Resistance, and Algorithmic Life 
in the Age of social media/
*Editor: *Paromita Pain: https://paromitapain.com/research/ 
<https://paromitapain.com/research/>

*Email:*(paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com)>
*Publisher*: (TBD – Routledge/Taylor & Francis or other academic press)
*Deadline for Abstracts:* August 1, 2025
*Full Chapter Deadline:* December 15, 2025

*Word Count for Abstracts:* 500–600 words
*Include:* Title, author(s) name(s), affiliation, email, and a short bio 
(up to 150 words)
*Notification of Acceptance:* August 15

*Full Chapter Deadline:* December 15, 2025

*Length:* 5,000–6,000 words (including references)
*Format:* APA 7th edition; double-spaced, Word doc

Over the past two decades, social media has transformed from a space of 
connection to a critical site of identity negotiation, resistance, 
surveillance, and survival—particularly for LGBTQ individuals and 
communities. While prior scholarship, including the volumes like /LGBTQ 
Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective/ and /Global LGBTQ Activism: 
Social Media, Digital Technologies, and Protest Mechanisms/, has 
explored LGBTQ advocacy and protest through digital media, this new 
collection proposes a shift in focus toward the algorithmic, economic, 
and socio-technical undercurrents that increasingly shape queer lives 
online. /Queerly Platformed/ seeks to interrogate how platform 
logics—algorithms, moderation policies, monetization, and visibility 
protocols—are experienced, resisted, and co-opted by LGBTQ users in 
global contexts.

Rather than revisiting social media purely as a tool for mobilization or 
community building, this volume centers on how the architecture of these 
platforms themselves construct, mediate, and sometimes threaten queer 
existence. From shadowbanning of trans creators on TikTok, to the 
strategic deployment of queerness in influencer economies, to the 
silencing of queer content through automated moderation in the Global 
South, platform-specific dynamics have become inseparable from the lived 
experiences of queer people online.

/Queerly Platformed/ will be among scholarly collections that focus 
specifically on the relationship between LGBTQ users and platform 
architectures. Its distinct contribution lies in shifting the analysis 
from digital expression to digital infrastructure—offering a timely, 
critical, and global look at how platforms shape queer life at the level 
of code, interface, labor, and desire. /Queerly Platformed/ intervenes 
in urgent debates about algorithmic bias, platform economies, digital 
violence, and queer futures under platform capitalism. It aims to foster 
new theoretical and political insights into how queer and trans life is 
being both fostered and foreclosed by the very technologies designed to 
connect us.

This collection will prioritize contributors from the Global South and 
marginalized communities who can speak to the differentiated experiences 
of LGBTQ users across geographies.  We especially welcome submissions 
from early-career scholars, independent researchers, activists, and 
artists—particularly those from underrepresented and Global South contexts.

This collection centers around certain important questions: How do 
platforms commodify or erase queerness under the guise of “community 
guidelines”? How are LGBTQ creators, users, activists, and communities 
adapting to, resisting, or reimagining their presence in a platformed 
digital world? What does it mean to be queer in an era of recommendation 
algorithms? And what are the emotional, economic, and political stakes 
of being hypervisible or invisibilized online?

*Suggested Topics*

We welcome theoretical, empirical, creative, and interdisciplinary 
approaches. Topics may include (but are not limited to):

  * *Platform Governance and Censorship*: How moderation practices and
    algorithmic rules affect queer users, particularly non-Western,
    disabled, trans, and racialized creators.
  * *Economies of Queer Influence*: The commercialization of queerness
    in influencer culture, brand partnerships, OnlyFans economies, and
    the rise of “rainbow capitalism.”
  * *Platform-Specific Cultures*: The emergence of queer subcultures on
    TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, BeReal, or Discord and how these spaces
    differ in inclusivity, creativity, and vulnerability.
  * *Digital Trauma and Resilience*: Emotional labor, burnout, trolling,
    doxxing, and the psycho-social effects of online harassment on LGBTQ
    users.
  * *Datafication and Surveillance*: How LGBTQ users are targeted,
    profiled, or invisibilized through data-driven systems and the
    commodification of queer identity.
  * *Intersectionality and Injustice*: How race, class, disability,
    religion, and geography intersect with platform power to create
    differentiated experiences of marginalization and survival.

  * *Algorithmic Erasure and Resistance*
      o Shadowbanning of queer/trans content on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube
      o Algorithmic bias, moderation, and censorship
  * *Queer Economies and Labor*
      o LGBTQ influencers and platform labor
      o OnlyFans and queer sex work in a platformed economy
      o Rainbow capitalism and corporate co-optation
  * *Platform-Specific Subcultures*
      o Discord servers, Twitch communities, queer Reddit threads
      o TikTok trends and identity performance
  * *Digital Harassment and Vulnerability*
      o Cyberbullying, trolling, and mental health
      o Platform responses to anti-LGBTQ hate speech
  * *Intersectionality and Inequality*
      o Race, disability, caste, religion, and class in platformed queer
        experiences
      o Queer digital life in the Global South and diasporic contexts
  * *Datafication and Surveillance*
      o Privacy, data tracking, targeted advertising
      o State surveillance of LGBTQ users
  * *Queer Joy, Resistance, and World-Building*
      o Memes, zines, fanfiction, audiovisual resistance
      o Alternative platforms, mutual aid network
      o *Critical Platform Studies and Technoculture*
          + Theorizing queer digital precarity and platform power
          + Historical perspectives on queer interaction with technology
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        *About the Editor*

        *Paromita Pain* is Associate Professor of Global Media at the
        University of Nevada, Reno. Her research centers on alternate
        media, digital journalism, and LGBTQ+ and feminist movements
        globally. She is the editor of /LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global
        Perspective/ (2022) and /Global LGBTQ Activism: Social Media,
        Digital Technologies, and Protest Mechanisms/ (2024). Read more
        about her work at: https://paromitapain.com/research/
        <https://paromitapain.com/research/>

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