A queer kind of dwelling

Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12656423
AutoresMatilda Tudor (0000-0001-5727-2697, Uppsala University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume26
Fascículo7
Páginas3895-3911
Data de publicação2022-07-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448221109801
OpenAlexW4285590071
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas50

This article asks what it means to habituate a queer orientation in a world permeated by digital connectivity. In doing so, it takes media phenomenology away from the mundane towards the momentous, drawing on queer phenomenology, and existential media studies. Using life-narrative interviews with sexual minorities in Russia, the article sheds light on the “work of queer habituation” in a straight world, and the contemporary significance of digital media technologies within this process. Digital media’s ability to multiply space is defined a key feature which offers sites to “stay with” the disorienting experience of queer dispositions. Through longer periods of discrete “queer digital dwelling,” individuals who have been associating their queer desires with ontological threats are able to find space for existence and existential security. By locating others in close proximity, some are also allowed to appropriate local territory in ways that make it more livable

Aesthetics · Art · Digital media · Epistemology · Existentialism · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political science · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology