Bleeding boundaries: Domesticating gay hook-up apps
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Bleeding boundaries : Domesticating gay hook-up apps. / Jørgensen, Kristian Møller; Petersen, Michael Nebeling.
Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities. red. / Rikke Andreassen; Michael Nebeling Petersen; Katherine Harrison; Tobias Raun. London : Routledge, 2018. s. 208-223 (Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Bleeding boundaries
T2 - Domesticating gay hook-up apps
AU - Jørgensen, Kristian Møller
AU - Petersen, Michael Nebeling
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Hook-up apps such as Grindr and Scruff have become important sites for the negotiation of sex between men, in that they shape the ways intimacy cultures are practised and become visible (Mowlabocus, 2010; Race, 2014; Duguay et al., 2016). While such apps enable different intimacy cultures, they also come paired with anxieties. In the epigraph the interview participant James1 expresses concerns about the how the hook-up app Scruff might restructure the boundaries of privacy and make him vulnerable to exposure. Such technological ambivalence is central to domestication theory, which focuses on the processes through which media are controlled. As Berker et al. (2005) argue: ‘These “strange” and “wild” technologies have to be “house-trained”; they have to be integrated into the structures, daily routines and values of users and their environments’ (p. 2).
AB - Hook-up apps such as Grindr and Scruff have become important sites for the negotiation of sex between men, in that they shape the ways intimacy cultures are practised and become visible (Mowlabocus, 2010; Race, 2014; Duguay et al., 2016). While such apps enable different intimacy cultures, they also come paired with anxieties. In the epigraph the interview participant James1 expresses concerns about the how the hook-up app Scruff might restructure the boundaries of privacy and make him vulnerable to exposure. Such technological ambivalence is central to domestication theory, which focuses on the processes through which media are controlled. As Berker et al. (2005) argue: ‘These “strange” and “wild” technologies have to be “house-trained”; they have to be integrated into the structures, daily routines and values of users and their environments’ (p. 2).
U2 - 10.4324/9781315208589-18
DO - 10.4324/9781315208589-18
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781138631878
SN - 9781138631861
T3 - Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education
SP - 208
EP - 223
BT - Mediated Intimacies
A2 - Andreassen, Rikke
A2 - Nebeling Petersen, Michael
A2 - Harrison, Katherine
A2 - Raun, Tobias
PB - Routledge
CY - London
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