The Politics of Dating Apps
An examination of dating app culture in China, across user demographics—straight women, straight men, queer women, and queer men. In this exploration of dating app culture in China, Lik Sam Chan argues that these popular mobile apps are not merely a platform for personal relationships but also an em...
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| description | An examination of dating app culture in China, across user demographics—straight women, straight men, queer women, and queer men. In this exploration of dating app culture in China, Lik Sam Chan argues that these popular mobile apps are not merely a platform for personal relationships but also an emerging arena for gender and queer politics. Chan examines the opportunities dating apps present for women's empowerment and men's performances of masculinity, and he links experiences of queer dating app users with their vulnerable position as sexual minorities. He finds that dating apps are both portals to an exciting virtual world of relational possibilities and sites of power dynamics that reflect the heteronormativity and patriarchy of Chinese society. Drawing on in-depth interviews with urban users of such dating apps as Momo, Tantan, Blued, Aloha, Rela, and Lesdo, Chan proposes “networked sexual publics” as a unifying concept to capture the dynamics of dating app culture. Devoting a chapter to each of four publics—straight women, straight men, queer men, and queer women—Chan documents how relationships are shaped and transfigured by this emerging technology. He considers whether dating apps can be a feminist tool; explores straight men's self-presentation on the apps and their interactions with women they meet there; discusses the constant cycle of deleting and installing the same apps seen among queer men; and examines how popular lesbian dating apps may connect queer women to their communities. Finally, Chan maps possible paths for future intersectional, queer, and feminist scholarship on emerging communication technologies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-786132024-03-29T04:24:50Z The Politics of Dating Apps Chan, Lik Sam dating apps hookup apps gender politics gender relations queer LGBTQ interpretive flexibility affordance networked publics sexual publics sex apps social apps hook-up apps location-aware location-based networking apps Grindr Tinder Blued Momo Rela feminism technofeminism leftover women gender performance gender performativity hegemonic masculinity sexual harassment sexual minorities affects heteronormativity social construction of technology interpretation publics digital media digital cultures mobile cultures China Chinese East Asia Global South thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF3 Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT3 Media studies: advertising and society thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society An examination of dating app culture in China, across user demographics—straight women, straight men, queer women, and queer men. In this exploration of dating app culture in China, Lik Sam Chan argues that these popular mobile apps are not merely a platform for personal relationships but also an emerging arena for gender and queer politics. Chan examines the opportunities dating apps present for women's empowerment and men's performances of masculinity, and he links experiences of queer dating app users with their vulnerable position as sexual minorities. He finds that dating apps are both portals to an exciting virtual world of relational possibilities and sites of power dynamics that reflect the heteronormativity and patriarchy of Chinese society. Drawing on in-depth interviews with urban users of such dating apps as Momo, Tantan, Blued, Aloha, Rela, and Lesdo, Chan proposes “networked sexual publics” as a unifying concept to capture the dynamics of dating app culture. Devoting a chapter to each of four publics—straight women, straight men, queer men, and queer women—Chan documents how relationships are shaped and transfigured by this emerging technology. He considers whether dating apps can be a feminist tool; explores straight men's self-presentation on the apps and their interactions with women they meet there; discusses the constant cycle of deleting and installing the same apps seen among queer men; and examines how popular lesbian dating apps may connect queer women to their communities. Finally, Chan maps possible paths for future intersectional, queer, and feminist scholarship on emerging communication technologies. 2022-02-21T15:13:28Z 2022-02-21T15:13:28Z 2021 book ONIX_20220221_9780262363389_133 9780262363389 9780262542340 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78613 eng Information Society Series image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12742.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262363389 9780262542340 The MIT Press 208 Cambridge open access |
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| title | The Politics of Dating Apps |
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| topic | dating apps hookup apps gender politics gender relations queer LGBTQ interpretive flexibility affordance networked publics sexual publics sex apps social apps hook-up apps location-aware location-based networking apps Grindr Tinder Blued Momo Rela feminism technofeminism leftover women gender performance gender performativity hegemonic masculinity sexual harassment sexual minorities affects heteronormativity social construction of technology interpretation publics digital media digital cultures mobile cultures China Chinese East Asia Global South thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF3 Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT3 Media studies: advertising and society thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society |
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