{"title":"Conceptualization of a Queer Cyberspace: ‘Gay Twitter’","authors":"Nino Giuliano Zulier","doi":"10.3224/fzg.v27i1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/fzg.v27i1.07","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to investigate the digital transition from queer, physical spaces to queer, virtual spaces and its subcultural importance within the queer community. A trialectic spatiality approach (Lefebvre 1991; Soja 1996) will be applied to the cyberspace of Twitter in order to explore a particular subversion of a social media platform into a queer cyberspace through a user-established, unique, subcultural sign and code system. By researching the particular experiences of virtual, queer identities on Twitter, the social media platform is characterized as a thirdspace, using the example of ‘Gay Twitter’, conceived as a spatial phenomenon. The essay examines cultural semiotics and the ‘invisible,’ virtual confines of a queered Twitter realm by showcasing the linguistic, contextual and visual markers which create such an ‘imagined,’ exclusive, virtual Twitter community. Subsequently, the cyber-community creation and the establishment of norms and discourses reveal beneficial traits associated with a transition from physical to virtual spaces, but also negative aspects such as virtual gate-keeping, dominant gender and sexuality norms, internal discrimination and underrepresented groups and identities in a queer cyberspace.","PeriodicalId":143570,"journal":{"name":"FZG – Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123679095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I care for you!? – Gender Studies studieren und lehren unter Corona-pandemischen Bedingungen","authors":"Diana Lengersdorf, Annika Spill","doi":"10.3224/fzg.v27i1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/fzg.v27i1.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143570,"journal":{"name":"FZG – Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122686547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digitalisierung und Geschlecht: Traditionslinien feministischer Auseinandersetzung mit neuen Technologien und gegenwärtige Herausforderungen","authors":"Tanja Carstensen, B. Prietl","doi":"10.3224/fzg.v27i1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/fzg.v27i1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Dieser Beitrag begibt sich auf die Spur feministisch-geschlechterforscherischer Auseinandersetzungen mit neuen (digitalen) Technologien. Damit verfolgt er ein zweifaches Ziel: Erstens die gegenwärtig mit Blick auf Digitalisierung aus Geschlechterperspektive aufgeworfenen Fragen – nach den Effekten der Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt, nach der Vergeschlechtlichung digitaler Artefakte sowie nach den Potenzialen digitaler Technologien für feministische Politik – einzuordnen in eine längere Tradition der Entwicklung und des Einsatzes neuer Technologien sowie deren kritische Begleitung durch Frauen- und Geschlechterforschungen; zweitens Lehren aus den dabei errungenen Einsichten zu ziehen und ausgehend hiervon zu reflektieren, wie aktuelle Digitalisierungsschübe aus feministischer, insbesondere intersektionaler, Sicht einzuschätzen sind und wo Konfliktlinien und Potenziale liegen.","PeriodicalId":143570,"journal":{"name":"FZG – Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116298141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wieder mehr Partizipation wagen? Geschlechterwissenschaftliche Verortungen mit und um die (Forschungs-)Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit","authors":"E. Tolasch, M. Pieper","doi":"10.3224/fzg.v27i1.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/fzg.v27i1.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143570,"journal":{"name":"FZG – Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien","volume":"102 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131054684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Möglichkeitsfenster digitaler Hochschullehre? Ein Gespräch über Digitalisierung in Zeiten der Corona-Pandemie","authors":"Inga Nüthen, Isabel Collien","doi":"10.3224/fzg.v27i1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/fzg.v27i1.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143570,"journal":{"name":"FZG – Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien","volume":"724 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133250067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}