A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments
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2024-01-01
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13634607
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14617382
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2-s2.0-85212516553
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Sexualities
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Sexualities (2024)
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Doungphummes N., Vicars M., Phanthaphoommee N. A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments. Sexualities (2024). doi:10.1177/13634607241308634 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/102552
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A sense of (dis)connectedness: LGBTQ+ online othering on Thai Facebook comments
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Abstract
This paper considers how online practices can reinforce inequality and constrain wellbeing, resilience, and self-esteem for Thai LGBTQ+ identifying individuals. Based on an inductive, exploratory analysis, our study focuses on the specific language use that facilitated the creation and perpetuation of LGBTQ+ “othering”. Our data were drawn on a purposive sample of posted comments on Facebook that made explicit and active forms of criticism of LGBTQ+ related to diversity, equality, and inclusion. Our readings of normalizing discourses on Thai social media have questioned the mythopoesis of LGBTQ+ inclusiveness on social media platforms and how pejorative online postings can contribute to the everyday reproduction of structural injustices of the wider queer community in a Thai context.