New Media, Sexual Subcultures, and a Critical Perspective on Research Problematics, Practices, and Possibilities

Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay provides an examination of questions that are intended as a provisional frame for critical inquiry concerning new media and sexual subcultures. The author provides a close reading of recent studies that are exemplary in their contribution to research concerned with the significance of artifacts and the production, mediatization and narrativization of queer relations, identificatory practices, desires, community participation, and social networks.