Queer joy on social media: exploring the expression and facilitation of queer joy in online platforms
Queer joy on social media: exploring the expression and facilitation of queer joy in online platforms
Queer Joy is conceptualised as a form of resistance to oppression by celebrating queerness in the face of adversity. This research aimed to centre queer joy and understand how it is expressed and may be facilitated in online spaces. To do this we conducted a survey with 100 UK participants who indicated they identified as LGBTQ+ on the online recruitment platform Prolific. We asked a series of open and closed questions in an online survey to investigate 1) what queer joy looks like on social media 2) how queer joy content is engaged with on social media 3) which platforms are perceived to facilitate queer joy and 4) how queer people protect their privacy online. The results suggested that to facilitate queer joy online, platforms should allow flexible self expression and community engagement, while allowing for granular control over privacy and the audience such content is shown to.
joy, lgbtq+, queer, social media
Association for Computing Machinery
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(2025)
Queer joy on social media: exploring the expression and facilitation of queer joy in online platforms.
Yamashita, Naomi, Evers, Vanessa, Yatani, Koji, Ding, Xianghua (Sharon), Lee, Bongshin, Chetty, Marshini and Toups-Dugas, Phoebe
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In CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Association for Computing Machinery.
19 pp
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(doi:10.1145/3706598.3713592).
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Queer Joy is conceptualised as a form of resistance to oppression by celebrating queerness in the face of adversity. This research aimed to centre queer joy and understand how it is expressed and may be facilitated in online spaces. To do this we conducted a survey with 100 UK participants who indicated they identified as LGBTQ+ on the online recruitment platform Prolific. We asked a series of open and closed questions in an online survey to investigate 1) what queer joy looks like on social media 2) how queer joy content is engaged with on social media 3) which platforms are perceived to facilitate queer joy and 4) how queer people protect their privacy online. The results suggested that to facilitate queer joy online, platforms should allow flexible self expression and community engagement, while allowing for granular control over privacy and the audience such content is shown to.
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Published date: 25 April 2025
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ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025, , Yokohama, Japan, 2025-04-26 - 2025-05-01
Keywords:
joy, lgbtq+, queer, social media
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/500607
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Last modified: 02 Oct 2025 02:07
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Author:
Madeleine Steeds
Author:
Sarah Clinch
Author:
Carolina Are
Author:
Genavee Brown
Author:
Ben Dalton
Author:
Lexi Webster
Author:
Alice Wilson
Author:
Dawn Woolley
Editor:
Naomi Yamashita
Editor:
Vanessa Evers
Editor:
Koji Yatani
Editor:
Xianghua (Sharon) Ding
Editor:
Bongshin Lee
Editor:
Marshini Chetty
Editor:
Phoebe Toups-Dugas
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