Abstract:This article explores the visual culture of social network applications (apps), using “safer-sex design” as an anchor to contemplate how different practices of looking at HIV co-constitute viral visibility. Drawing on science and technology studies and queer theories, this article traces viral visibility from its digital production through its marketization, and finally to its implications for gay men’s sexual communication in Taiwan. Through interviews with gay Taiwanese men and a social app developer and the… Show more
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