Gender and sexuality II

Brown, Michael

doi:10.1177/0309132513484215

Cited by 99 publications

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“…Racism and sexism intersect with one another and produces exclusion that impacts both body image and overall well being among racialized non-heterosexuals (Brennan et al, 2013;Brown, 2014). The identified anti-racism boundaries are in line with previous research showing that Nordic LGBTQ online communities are far from free from racism (Shield, 2016;Svensson, 2016).…”

Section: Age and Ethnicitysupporting

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Mind, Body and Boundaries: Self-Presentation on the Nordic LGBTQ Online Dating Scene

Miller

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Online dating is continually on the rise and nowadays a widely used and accepted way to find different kinds of companionship. This relatively new interpersonal phenomenon has provided an especially important virtual space for non-heterosexuals. Previous research on behaviors and trends on dating communities online for sexual minorities has focused primarily on sites for gay men in Anglo-Saxon countries. The purpose of the present study is to examine self-presentations on the Nordic LGBTQ online dating scene and possible gender-dependent differences in self-presentation. The Nordic countries are commonly perceived as progressive in issues regarding gender equality and LGBTQ rights. The countries on average also have low population density with large rural areas and consequently limited scenes for non-heterosexuals. A testimony of this is the study's selected dating site, which is based in Sweden but encompasses the neighboring countries and markets itself as a Nordic meeting venue. The present study embarks on new territory within psychology-, gender-, and queer research by examining self-presentations on a mixed-gender LGBTQ dating site, situated in the supposedly liberal Nordic countries. Based on qualitative and quantitative data from a stratified sample of 716 cis-gendered, predominantly Swedish online dating profiles, on a wellestablished Nordic online dating site for non-heterosexual men and women, statistical calculations and a thematic analysis (TA) were executed. The findings show that central self-presentations concern mind versus body, lust and longings, and boundaries, where gender frequently functions as the dividing line. Women self-present more through personality and romantic longings compared to men, who to a higher degree emphasizes body, and lust. Self-presentation is also expressed through resistance against boundary-breaking contact on the site. The boundaries that are guarded regard age, anti-racism and most pronounced-boundaries against male harassment of nonheterosexual women. The implications of self-presentation, possible discrimination and misrepresentation on the Nordic LGBTQ online dating scene are discussed.

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confidence: 83%

“…The LGBTQ community can be narrow-minded and discriminatory, where inclusion always leads to some form of exclusion (Valentine and Skelton, 2003;Casey, 2004;Brown, 2014). If every Nordic dating site for non-heterosexuals aims to cater to the sexual-oriented male profiler, inevitable other types of members risk feeling excluded.…”

Section: Dating Misrepresentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind, Body and Boundaries: Self-Presentation on the Nordic LGBTQ Online Dating Scene

Miller

2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…Johnston and Longhurst (2010) distinguish "communities", which transcend geographic boundaries to bring people with shared interests together, from urban "zones", in which geographic boundaries (e.g., queer neighborhoods, red-light districts) serve to attract people with shared interests (Brown, 2013). This separation highlights a key tension in understanding location-based technologies like Grindr in light of extant literature.…”

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confidence: 99%

Seeing and being seen: Co-situation and impression formation using Grindr, a location-aware gay dating app

Blackwell¹,

Birnholtz²,

Abbott

2014

New Media & Society

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While online spaces and communities were once seen to transcend geography, the ubiquity of location-aware mobile devices means that today's online interactions are deeply intertwined with offline places and relationships. Systems such as online dating applications for meeting nearby others provide novel social opportunities, but can also complicate interaction by aggregating or "co-situating" diverse sets of individuals. Often this aggregation occurs across traditional spatial or community boundaries that serve as cues for self-presentation and impression formation. This paper explores these issues through an interview study of Grindr users. Grindr is a location-aware real-time dating application for men who have sex with men. We argue that co-situation affects how and whether Grindr users and their behavior are visible to others, collapses or erases contextual cues about normative behavior, and introduces tensions in users' selfpresentation in terms of their identifiability and the cues their profile contains relative to their behavior.

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“…Bell ; Valentine ; Nash ) tend to fix ‘queer’ as an adjective given by the subjects, human social actors. Such a perspective can culminate in a ‘revival of the ghetto’ (Brown ) in times of a symbolism of space under the neoliberal agenda of cosmopolitanism (Binnie & Skeggs ; Brown ). How to develop a queer approach that goes beyond an identitarian rationality?…”

Section: Entering the Field: Situated Knowledges And Participant Obsementioning

confidence: 99%

Affects, Bodies and Desire: ‘Queering’ Methods and Methodologies to Research Queer Migration

Feliciantonio

Gadelha

2016

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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In this paper we discuss the main methodological issues raised by a research project we carried out between 2012 and 2013 about Italian queer 'creative' migration in Berlin, focusing on the tensions among mobility/movement, desire, bodies, affects and fieldwork. Following an increasing international debate on the topic, the contribution discusses the (im)possibility to develop a queer method or methodology. We stress how 'queering' methodologies and methods is not an ontological position pre-assumed when conducting research with queer-identified subjects, but is a process of dismantling taken-for-granted, stable, monolithic categories and identities. In order to do so, the paper discusses positionalities, situated knowledge and the different interactions --with both human and non-human actors --shaping the field. Through analysing body performances in the terms introduced by Taylor, 'a politics of becoming' emerges as a way to consider the relation between sexualities and spaces. The 'objects' of our research, that is, queer migrants, can thus be reframed following Braidotti's conceptualisation of the 'nomadic subject' and Deleuze and Guattari's 'desiring machines'. Since they are shaped by affects, personal trajectories are exceptional and unique, composing new territorial materialities.

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Gender and sexuality II

Cited by 99 publications

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Mind, Body and Boundaries: Self-Presentation on the Nordic LGBTQ Online Dating Scene

Mind, Body and Boundaries: Self-Presentation on the Nordic LGBTQ Online Dating Scene

Seeing and being seen: Co-situation and impression formation using Grindr, a location-aware gay dating app

Affects, Bodies and Desire: ‘Queering’ Methods and Methodologies to Research Queer Migration

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