Queer Joy on Social Media: Exploring the Expression and Facilitation of Queer Joy in Online Platforms.

Steeds, Madeleine, Clinch, Sarah, Are, Carolina, Brown, Genavee, Dalton, Ben, Webster, Lexi, Wilson, Alice and Woolley, Dawn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6958-5658 (2025) Queer Joy on Social Media: Exploring the Expression and Facilitation of Queer Joy in Online Platforms. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

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 identifed as LGBTQ+ on the online recruitment platform Prolifc. 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 fexible self expression and community engagement, while allowing for granular control over privacy and the audience such content is shown to.

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