En queer blick på teknik i TV-serier

Abstract

This article elaborates on the co-production of gender, technology and sexuality. Approaches from feminist technology studies, a re-formulated notion of the heterosexual matrix and queer critiques of homophobia and heteronormativity are combined into an interpretative framework. This framework is used in an analysis of the work cars, computers and mobile phones do in relation to gender and sexuality in four English-language TV series with international distribution: The L Word, Queer as Folk (UK version), Sex and the City and Entourage. The article details a variety of ways in which technology contributes to performances of gender and sexuality. It is argued that the particular relationship between a human character and a specific technological artefact can act as a determinant for the person’s gender and sexuality.