Lesbians Online
Queer Identity and Community Formation on the French Minitel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12363044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamara Chaplin (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Tamara Eileen Chaplin (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451-472 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1043-4070 • E-ISSN: 1535-3605 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7560/jhs23305 |
| OpenAlex | W1745751532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
M o r e t h a n t h i r t y y e a r s a f t e r its appearance, few remember either the Minitel—a now defunct French prototype for the Internet based on a closed network videotex system that connected a computer to telephone lines via a modem—or the interest that it generated among the gay and lesbian communities in France. There is nevertheless no doubt that the Minitel and the Internet, which superseded it, revolutionized queer life both in France and around the globe. Militant political and social networking, commercial websites, listserves, blogs, streaming video, dating services, and Internet porn catering to gay and lesbian publics proliferate. Yet despite the rapid expansion of sites and practices, very little research on the early history of this important phenomenon has been published. The burgeoning field of cyberqueer studies primarily focuses on the United States, Britain, and asia. The limited scholarship that addresses this topic with respect to
Aesthetics · Art · Globe · Identity (music · Lesbian · Media studies · Militant · Political science · Politics · Publics · Queer · Scholarship · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |