The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight Monea Alexander
The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight Monea Alexander An exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation,…
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The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight Monea Alexander
An exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more.A Next Big Idea Club nominee.In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by suppressing everything that is not, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into increasingly narrow channels--rendering it invisible through opaque algorithms, automated and human content moderation, warped keywords, and other strategies of digital overreach. In this wide-ranging, enlightening account, Monea examines the cultural, technological, and political Monea explains how the United States' thirty-year "war on porn" has brought about the over-regulation of sexual content, which, in turn, has resulted in the censorship of much nonpornographic content--including material on sex education and LGBTQIA+ activism.