Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality

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Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI:10.1080/15295036.2023.2268698

Joe Edward Hatfield

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ABSTRACTIn this article, I examine Stonewall Forever, a mobile augmented reality (AR) application developed by Google and the U.S. National Parks Service, that superimposes computer-generated imagery into users’ lines of vision to shape public memories of the Stonewall National Monument. I argue the app functions rhetorically as a visual-material chronotope because it spatiotemporally reorients visions toward otherwise hidden contexts in which multiply marginalized people acted as primary agents in the events surrounding the Stonewall riots. However, even as the app renders visible the contributions of minoritized communities in a landmark moment in LGBTQ + history, it repackages the bodies of now deceased trans of color revolutionaries as icons within a homonationalist frame, obscuring the ongoing callousness of a nation-state that has yet to provide systemic protections for the very identities it memorializes. My criticism of the app focuses on how institutional powers may leverage emerging visual media to generate more inclusive historical storylines as a technique for both managing changing cultural expectations regarding representational diversity and to serve national interests, a nascent but nonetheless profound effect of the gradually coalescing domains of queer monumentality and official U.S. commemorative traditions.KEYWORDS: Digitalarchivepublic memorychronotopehomonationalism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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永远的石墙:增强现实时代的酷儿纪念性

在这篇文章中，我研究了石墙永远，这是一个由b谷歌和美国国家公园管理局开发的移动增强现实(AR)应用程序，它将计算机生成的图像叠加到用户的视线中，以塑造公众对石墙国家纪念碑的记忆。我认为，从修辞上讲，这款应用的功能是一种视觉材料的计时器，因为它在时空上将人们的视野重新定向到隐藏的背景中，在这些背景中，许多边缘化的人在围绕石墙骚乱的事件中扮演了主要角色。然而，尽管这款应用在LGBTQ +历史上具有里程碑意义的时刻，展示了少数群体的贡献，但它在同性恋民族主义框架内，将现已去世的跨肤色革命者的遗体重新包装为图标，掩盖了一个民族国家持续的冷酷，这个国家尚未为它所纪念的身份提供系统保护。我对这款应用的批评主要集中在机构权力如何利用新兴的视觉媒体来产生更具包容性的历史故事情节，作为一种技术，既能管理关于代表性多样性的不断变化的文化期望，又能服务于国家利益，这是酷儿纪念性和美国官方纪念传统逐渐融合的领域所产生的一种新生但却深刻的影响。关键词:数字档案，公共记忆，时间，民族主义披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as • media audiences • representations • institutions • digital technologies • social media • gaming • professional practices and ethics • production studies • media history • political economy. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet.