Digital transnational queer isolations and connections

ABSTRACT

In this essay, my goal is to push the discourse of critical queer intercultural communication research further and expand its circumference by focusing on transnational and diasporic digitalized queer experiences. Hence, I argue that new media technologies, social media platforms, and quick media applications play a significant role in the lives of transnational, diasporic and immigrant queer individuals by providing new opportunities to imagine home and belonging and perform transnational and accented queer identities. Therefore, I enact and embody decolonizing autoethnographic writing. In doing so, I aim to decolonize mainstream queer spaces, including how queer stories are being told and whose stories are being published in which venues. Thus, I aim to speak from the periphery, including that of queer and critical intercultural communication scholarship, with a transnational queer accent.

KEYWORDS:

• Transnational
• queer
• digital
• immigrant
• cyberspace

Notes

1 ICQ is a cross platform messenger. It was released in 1996. It was originally developed by Mirabilis, an Israeli company and then it was bought by AOL in 1998. It peaked around 2001 and it has more than 100 million account registered. Although it is being updated, ICQ lost its popularity.