Edited by: Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala

We are delighted to announce the publication of the Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, edited by Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, and Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. It includes an introduction, 7 empirical articles and 5 forum pieces. They are all amazing! :) You can read the Special Issue here: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 

CONTENTS

Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media

Special Issue Editors: Yener Bayramo[1]glu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala

Original Articles

Transnational queer cultures and digital media: An introduction

YENER BAYRAMOGLU, [1] ŁUKASZ SZULC, AND RADHIKA GAJJALA

A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics

PENG QIAO AND YUQI HU

“Instagram is like a karela:” Transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India

TANVI KANCHAN 

RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer authenticity and strategic Westernness

ZANE AUSTIN WILLARD AND RACHEL E. DUBROFSKY

Trans (on) YouTube: Localizing transnational narratives on two Polish trans YouTube channels

JOANNA CHOJNICKA

Glitchy transnationalism: When queer migrants meet the state online

HATIM RACHDI

“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay:” BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires

ESIHLE LUPINDO 

What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community

BEATRICE MELIS, CHIARA PAOLINI, MARTA FIORAVANTI, AND DANIELE METILLI 

Forum 

The “aroma of citrus” as transnational queer digital culture: Girls’ Love webtoons in contemporary China

JAMIE J. ZHAO 

When the homo deamon went digital: Writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora

B. CAMMINGA

“Middle East conflict in Berlin schools:” On the affectability of “fake news”

JIN HARITAWORN

“How do I put this gently?” Articulating the link between racial selectivity in the sexual market and neighborhood selection in the residential market of a global city

NICHOLAS BOSTON 

Gay for pay: Homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape

SHARIF MOWLABOCUS