Description
About the Author
Patrick M. Johnson is assistant professor and program coordinator for the Department of Communication at Indiana University Northwest.
Reviews
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
Book Information
ISBN 9781793613486
Author Patrick M. Johnson
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 227g
Dimensions(mm) 219mm * 154mm * 11mm