Identity modulation in networked publics: Queer women's participation and representation on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine

Duguay, Stefanie

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“…This tension is especially prevalent in queer women’s accounts, where both women’s and ‘mixed’ app environments are commonly experienced as prone to intrusion from deceptive users and cis men (Duguay, 2017; Ferris and Duguay, 2020). In Duguay’s study of queer women on Tinder, participants deployed ‘identity modulation’ (2017: 57) – a careful balance of emphasising their own queerness alongside excluding information that would identify them until after a match was confirmed. Although not all queer women Ferris and Duguay interviewed identified as lesbian, the perceived ‘permeability of Gay Tinder’ (2020: 499) by deceptive users often prompted users to rely on stereotypical shorthand signals to facilitate quick recognition.…”

Section: Challenges To Ethical Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This tension is especially prevalent in queer women's accounts, where both women's and 'mixed' app environments are commonly experienced as prone to intrusion from deceptive users and cis men (Duguay, 2017;Ferris and Duguay, 2020). In Duguay's study of queer women on Tinder, participants deployed 'identity modulation' (2017: 57) -a careful balance of emphasising their own queerness alongside excluding information that would identify them until after a match was confirmed.…”

Section: Challenges To Ethical Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps

Pym

Byron

Albury

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Digital media has played a historical role in orienting LGBTQ+ young people’s notions of ‘community’ around performances of identity and selfhood. In our research with LGBTQ+ dating app users aged 18–35, ‘queer community’ materialised in relation to participants’ expectations of ethical alignment with others, with an emphasis on performing a reflexive self who was clear and consistent in what they sought on apps. Participants described apps as providing access to community, or enhancing existing connections forged via other social media or in-person contexts. In ways that both cohered with and diverged from historical framings of ‘queer community’, the concept emerged as a shared understanding of ethical conduct, where emotional safety and connecting with ‘nice people’ were prioritised. App users acknowledged the challenges of navigating the constraints and possibilities of dating app cultures and infrastructures, alongside negotiating one’s political responsibilities to ‘queer community’.

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Section: Challenges To Ethical Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Challenges To Ethical Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps

Pym

Byron

Albury

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Shared cultural hooks and norms have also been produced by users’ everyday practices on Tinder. As Duguay (2017b: 92) finds, queer women on Tinder form a ‘loosely connected public’, whereby they are loosely connected through viewing each other’s profiles that contain ‘references to shared understandings of queer, female identity’, and that this public functions ‘alongside a much larger public of heterosexual users’ on Tinder. Ferris and Duguay (2020) further conceptualise the ‘loosely connected public’ as a digital imaginary among women seeking women (WSW).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between ‘homeland’ and ‘the local’: the shared cultural imaginary of Tantan among Chinese communities in Australia

Chen

2021

Media International Australia

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This article examines the cultural imaginary of Tantan shared among Australian Chinese diasporic users. Drawing on data collected through the walkthrough method and 16 interviews with Australia-based Chinese users of Tantan, this article finds that participants were able to perceive and contribute to the shared cultural references and norms on Tantan, which show a close connection with social media cultures in China. However, Tantan in Australia is not merely an extension of Chinese Internet culture; rather, it features unique characteristics that reflect elements of local Australian culture. This article argues that Tantan profile styles embody Chinese users’ diasporic identification in Australia, which involves an ongoing process of cultural navigation in their host country. Furthermore, as a geolocational app, Tantan also has the potential to bridge the flow of digital culture between ‘homeland’ and ‘the local’ with the transnational movements of its users.

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“…While there has been a recent surge in social semiotic analyses of Instagram (e.g. Tiidenberg 2015;Zappavigna 2016;Duguay 2017), much of this research has focussed on its private uses. By contrast, little attention has been paid to its strategic uses by corporations and institutions (see Mapes, in press, for a recent exception however).…”

Section: The Corporate Uses Of Instagrammentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With regard to Instagram in general, several scholars observe that it reinforces dominant discourses (e.g. Tiidenberg 2015;Carah & Shaul 2016;Duguay 2017). In particular, Duguay (2017: 99) points out that the sociotechnical affordances of Instagram encourage users to create and share images that "symbolically reference upper class lifestyles", through which mundane pictures of everyday life can be transformed into status symbols.…”

Section: The Corporate Uses Of Instagrammentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualizing digital discourse: Interactional, institutional, and ideological perspectives

Zhao

2020

Intercultural Pragmatics

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The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis; visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains, chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their macro-level framing -all with particular regard for emojis. The second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppänen, examines the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations, and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut Stöckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.

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Identity modulation in networked publics: Queer women's participation and representation on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine

Cited by 7 publications

References 184 publications

‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps

‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps

Between ‘homeland’ and ‘the local’: the shared cultural imaginary of Tantan among Chinese communities in Australia

Visualizing digital discourse: Interactional, institutional, and ideological perspectives

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