Virtual Intimacies tells the stories of gay men, including the author, who navigate social worlds in which the boundaries between real and virtual have been thoroughly confounded. Shaka Mc Glotten analyzes intimate connection and disconnection across an array of media sites, including mass mediated public sex scandals, online spaces, Do-It-Yourself porn, and smartphone apps in order to show the ordinary ways people challenge and rework sexuality and technology. The book frames ‘virtual intimacy’ in terms of the mocking disapproval that looks at using technology to connect as something shameful or as a means of last resort. However, where many see a dead end,
Virtual Intimacies argues on behalf of more extensive understandings of intimacy, thereby contributing to many feminist and queer approaches that seek to expand the scope of what counts as connection, belonging, or love. The author also highlights the creative and resilient ways that queer people build social worlds using spaces and technologies in ways they were not intended.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Virtual Life of Sex in Public
2. Intimacies in the Multi(player)verse
3. Feeling Black and Blue
4. Justin Fucks the Future
5. The
Élan Vital of DIY Porn
Coda: On Not Hooking Up
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Shaka Mc Glotten is Associate Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts at Purchase College, State University of New York. He is the coeditor (with Dána-Ain Davis) of
Black Genders and Sexualities.
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