Queer mobilities and new spatial media

In this chapter, we examine three distinctive and alternative conceptual or theoretical approaches to how we might understand life at the intersections of queer subjects, queer place-making and technologies. To begin, we examine contemporary feminist digital geographies which provide important insights into how social categories such as sexuality and gender are always-already in play in engagements with new technologies. Second, Leszczynski and Elwood’s (2015) work on new spatial media considers how user-generated geographical information is potentially queering urban locations and reconstituting subjects. Finally, the authors draw on Kitchin and Dodge’s (2011) notions of the ‘queering’ of code/space to suggest how disciplining and normalizing processes operate to constitute places as heteronormative, challenging the potential queer of some locations. Taken together, each of these approaches offers geographers opportunities to conceptualize how technologies are implicated in the remaking of queer subjects and place.