Open AccessResistance and possibility: Rethinking the concept of subject access from queer theoretical perspectives
Author(s) -
Adler Melissa,
Campbell D. Grant,
Keilty Patrick
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101014
Subject(s) - queer , subject (documents) , resistance (ecology) , session (web analytics) , relation (database) , sociology , queer theory , epistemology , variety (cybernetics) , aesthetics , gender studies , computer science , world wide web , art , philosophy , artificial intelligence , ecology , database , biology
This session will use queer theory to raise important questions about the role of information science in relation to queer communities. Using examples taken from both literary and popular culture, the session will look at the practices of classification in information systems, and how those practices, even when they attempt to facilitate access to resources for LGBTQ communities, ignore disjunctions and distortions that, far from being a barrier to access, form a fundamental aspect of queer expression.