Selected Theoretical Resources 2026
A curated selection of texts, projects, and references that inform recent lectures, research, and public programmes. These resources are intended as points of entry rather than exhaustive bibliographies.
Bryant, T.D. (2022) ‘The experiences of undergraduate Black gay men who use hookup and dating apps while attending a predominantly White institution’. Theses and Dissertations, 2968. Rowan University. Available at: https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/2968
Bucher, T. (2012) ‘Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook’, New Media & Society, 14(7), pp. 1164–1180. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444812440159.
Chan, L.S., Cassidy, E. and Rosenberger, J.G. (2021) 'Mobile dating apps and racial preferencing insights: Exploring self-reported racial preferences and behavioural racial preferences among gay men using Jack’d', International Journal of Communication, 15, pp. 3928–3947. Available at: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/16730
Dev, S., Li, T. and Phillips, J. (2021) ‘Harms of Gender Exclusivity and Underrepresentation in Language Technologies’, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Available at: https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.150.pdf
Downs, A. (2005) ‘The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World’. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Lifelong Books.
Dunne, A. and Raby, F. (2013) Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). (2022) ‘LGBTIQ equality strategy 2020–2025: Tackling discrimination in the digital era’. Available at: https://fra.europa.eu
Florêncio, J. (2021) 'Chemsex Cultures: Subcultural Reproduction and Queer Survival', Sexualities, 26(5–6), pp. 556–573. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720986922.
Hakim, J. (2019) Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture. London: Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN: 9781786604415.
Haraway, D. (1985) A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. Socialist Review, 80, pp. 65–108.
Jarzombek, M. (2016) Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
McGlotten, S. (2013) Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN: 9781438448770.
Møller, K. (2020) 'Hanging, Blowing, Slamming, and Playing: Erotic Control and Overflow in a Digital Chemsex Scene', Sexualities, 23(8), pp. 909–925. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720964100.
Nieborg, D. and Poell, T. (2018) 'The Platformization of Cultural Production: Theorizing the Contingent Cultural Commodity', New Media & Society, 20(11), pp. 4275–4292. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818769694.
Rosamond, E. (2023) ‘YouTube Personalities as Infrastructure: The Assetisation of Identity in Social Media Logic’, Culture Machine, 19(1). Available at: http://culturemachine.net/vol-19-2018-the-infrastructure-of-identity/youtube-personalities-as-infrastructure/
Vita-More, N. (1983) Transhumanist Manifesto. Available at: https://www.humanityplus.org/the-transhumanist-manifesto.
Wark, S. (2017) 'Correlating Race: On Machine Learning and Digital Culture', University of Warwick. Available at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/researchforum
McQuillan, D. (2022) Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. Bristol: Bristol University Press.