Digital media technologies have enabled some LGBTQ+ individuals and communities to successfully organize for basic rights and justice. But these technologies can also present risks, such as online and in-person harassment and assault, and unsettled standards of privacy and consent. Justin Ellis provides new insights on LGBTQ+ identity formation through social media networks and platform biometrics. Drawing on debate over gender, procreation, religion, nationalism and tech-regulation, he considers the effects of surveillance technologies on LGBTQ+ agency. In doing so, he brings an interdisciplinary ‘digiqueer’ perspective to negotiations of LGBTQ+ identity through case studies of digital harms from case law, parliamentary debates, social and mainstream media and LGBTQ-tech advocacy.
As a City struggles to recover from severe austerity measures imposed by the previous regime, it is hit by a crime-wave. One of the City's leading figures is murdered, and all the evidence points to Donato, a gifted young artist who has just arrived from out of town, as the culprit. Florence, 1504. Leonardo's Mona Lisa and Michelangelo's statue of David are completed as the Renaissance reaches its peak. The City, however, is in turmoil following frequent and violent regime changes. Donato finds himself caught up in the crime-wave that is destabilising the City, and in a murder plot involving both Leonardo and Michelangelo. Niccolo Machiavelli has been charged by the government with leading the investigation. Can he solve the puzzle of who lies behind the crimes in time to save one of the artists and the City itself?
