Queer theory, cyber-ethnographies and researching online sex environments

Ashford, Chris

doi:10.1080/13600830903424734

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“…This was particularly visible in white, middle-class participants' criticisms of other peer-aged men thought culpable of uploading onto their online profiles photographs of considerably younger selves (Ashford 2009). Such acts of deception by men who should 'know better' attracted particularly sharp censure and were viewed as a failure to accept the ageing self.…”

Section: Capitulation To Gay Ageism: Risk and Constraintmentioning

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Differentiating selves: middle‐aged gay men in Manchester's less visible ‘homospaces’

Simpson

2014

British Journal of Sociology

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Scholarship on gay bars/'villages' has overshadowed study of 'homospaces' (gay fields of existence) less available/inaccessible to a wider public - websites, saunas and social/support groups. Based on interviews with 27 men aged 39-61 living in Manchester, this article addresses what middle-aged gay men's accounts of these particular homospaces say about their experiences of age/ageing and how relations of ageism work within them. Specifically, I focus on how study participants use 'ageing capital' in these fields to differentiate themselves from their younger counterparts in three ways. First, ageing capital is implicated in capitulation to gay ageism and a reverse ageism - visible in accounts of differentiation from the 'superficial,' reckless ways of sexualized space that participants associated with younger gay men. Second, it was visible in accounts of resistance to/questioning of gay ageism - strategies that could make sexualized homospaces more habitable. Third, ageing capital was implicated in negotiation with ageing/gay ageism - visible in ambivalent stances hovering between compliance and resistance - towards ageing and ageism, which could reinforce constraints on uses/display of the body. The first and third accounts indicate the multidirectional character of gay ageism, limits on the deployment on ageing capital and show how middle-aged men can undermine their generational claims to represent a more authentic form of gay male embodiment. En route, I also complicate stereotypical thinking that gay social/support groups represent more inclusive, empowering space whilst overtly sexualized spaces of the 'gay scene' represent the opposite.

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Section: Capitulation To Gay Ageism: Risk and Constraintmentioning

confidence: 95%

Differentiating selves: middle‐aged gay men in Manchester's less visible ‘homospaces’

Simpson

2014

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Queer tactics are frequently embedded in the socio-technological. As Ashford (2009) notes, "Technology heightens our awareness of the fluidity of identity as never before" (p. 310). Halberstam's (2011) conception of queer theory illustrates the visceral intersections of the technological and the queer: I believe in low theory in popular places, in the small, the inconsequential, the antimonumental, the micro, the irrelevant; I believe in making a difference by thinking little thoughts and sharing them widely.…”

Section: Queer Hacks and Internet Fandommentioning

confidence: 96%

HackingXena: Technological innovation and queer influence in the production of mainstream television

Maris

2016

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“…When LGBT individuals come together as a community, they can support each other (Savage, Harley, & Nowak, ) and can become more aware of members' similarities within the group and can overcome threats from outside the group (Baumeister & Vohs, ; Maki, ). Some examples of online spaces include, for example, video‐sharing technologies on sexual social networking sites (Kreps, ), or online sex groups (Ashford, ). Virtual worlds enable LGBT individuals to come together to express their identity (Cabiria, ).…”

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Creating convivial affordances: A study of virtual world social movements

McKenna

2019

Information Systems Journal

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The study of technology and societal challenges is a growing area in information systems research. This paper explores how social movements can use virtual worlds to raise awareness or create safe spaces for their members. As social movements move into virtual worlds, the technical environment becomes more important. This paper presents an interpretive field study using netnographic research and empirical data from a study of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movement in World of Warcraft. This paper takes the position that an understanding of affordances is required for users to be able to create convivial outcomes to shape the use of virtual worlds for their own goals and intentions. The paper presents the concept of convivial affordances, which brings together the theories of affordances and conviviality, and suggests that social users can shape IT artefacts through a creative combination of affordances for their specific goals, and with community involvement. K E Y W O R D Saffordances, conviviality, netnography, qualitative, social movements, virtual worlds

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Queer theory, cyber-ethnographies and researching online sex environments

Cited by 39 publications

References 67 publications

Differentiating selves: middle‐aged gay men in Manchester's less visible ‘homospaces’

Differentiating selves: middle‐aged gay men in Manchester's less visible ‘homospaces’

HackingXena: Technological innovation and queer influence in the production of mainstream television

Creating convivial affordances: A study of virtual world social movements

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