Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ plus young people, dating apps, friendship and safety

Byron, P; Albury, K; Pym, T

Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ plus young people, dating apps, friendship and safety

Byron, P

Albury, K Pym, T

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Media Culture and Society, 2021
Issue Date:: 2021

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dc.contributor.author	Byron, P https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6591-3060
dc.contributor.author	Albury, K
dc.contributor.author	Pym, T
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-17T09:44:17Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-17T09:44:17Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.citation	Media Culture and Society, 2021
dc.identifier.issn	0163-4437
dc.identifier.issn	1460-3675
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/147296
dc.description.abstract	© The Author(s) 2020. Research exploring digital intimate publics tends to consider social media platforms and dating/hook-up apps separately, implying distance between social and sexual communication practices. This paper troubles that delineation by drawing on LGBTQ+ young people’s accounts of negotiating safety and risk in dating/hook-up apps, in which friendship practices are significant. We explore four key themes of friendship that arose in our analysis of interviews and workshop discussions: sharing mutuals (or friends-in-common) with potential dates/hook-ups; making friends through apps; friends supporting app negotiations; and friends’ involvement in safety strategies. Through analysis of these data, we firstly argue that friendship is often both an outcome and an organising force of LGBTQ+ young people’s uses of dating/hook-up apps, and secondly, that media sites commonly defined as social (e.g. Instagram) or sexual (e.g. Tinder) are imbricated, with friendship contouring queer sex and dating practices.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartof	Media Culture and Society
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/0163443720972312
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	Media Culture and Society, 2021. Copyright © 2021 SAGE Publications. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443720972312	en_US
dc.subject	1903 Journalism and Professional Writing, 2001 Communication and Media Studies, 2002 Cultural Studies
dc.subject.classification	Communication & Media Studies
dc.title	Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ plus young people, dating apps, friendship and safety
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	2001 Communication and Media Studies
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dc.date.updated	2021-03-17T09:44:10Z
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Abstract:

© The Author(s) 2020. Research exploring digital intimate publics tends to consider social media platforms and dating/hook-up apps separately, implying distance between social and sexual communication practices. This paper troubles that delineation by drawing on LGBTQ+ young people’s accounts of negotiating safety and risk in dating/hook-up apps, in which friendship practices are significant. We explore four key themes of friendship that arose in our analysis of interviews and workshop discussions: sharing mutuals (or friends-in-common) with potential dates/hook-ups; making friends through apps; friends supporting app negotiations; and friends’ involvement in safety strategies. Through analysis of these data, we firstly argue that friendship is often both an outcome and an organising force of LGBTQ+ young people’s uses of dating/hook-up apps, and secondly, that media sites commonly defined as social (e.g. Instagram) or sexual (e.g. Tinder) are imbricated, with friendship contouring queer sex and dating practices.

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