Virtual Intimacies : Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality.

virtualintimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Virtual Life of Sex in Public -- Disavowing Sex in Public -- Austin Sex Publics -- A Kxan News Undercover -- Falls from Grace -- To Catch a Predator -- Chapter Two: Intimacies in the Multi(player)verse -- Instrumental Intimacies in Azeroth -- The World of Warcraft -- Constraining Play -- Constraining Belonging -- Playing with Others -- Guilds -- The Death of the Amazons -- Solo Play -- Intimacy and Multiplicity -- Naked Night Elves -- Chapter Three: Feeling Black and Blue -- Online Gay Sex Publics and Black Affects -- Feeling Black and Blue -- Anxiety -- Paranoia -- Optimism -- Chapter Four: Justin Fucks the Future -- No Future -- Innocence Lost -- Redemption -- Innocence Lost (again) -- Fucking the Future -- Chapter Five: The Élan Vital of DIY Porn -- It's Alive -- Élan Vital -- DIY Porn/Gay Porn Histories -- Open Porn -- Alt Sex/Alt Economy -- Sharing Sex -- Mystery Porn -- Hacking Porn -- Porn into Life -- Coda: On Not Hooking Up -- Material Boys Living in an (IM)Material World -- Image Labor -- Douchebags of Grindr -- On the Immanence of Browsing -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Virtual Life of Sex in Public -- Chapter Two. Intimacies in the Multi(player)verse -- Chapter Three. Feeling Black and Blue -- Chapter Four. Justin Fucks the Future -- Chapter Five. The Élan Vital of DIY Porn -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index.