Mobile Sexuality: Presentations of Young Filipinos in Dating Apps

Labor, Jonalou S.

doi:10.52518/2020.17.1-09labor

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“…In a study by Labour (2020), 7 of the 52 participants claimed they emphasised their positive qualities while hiding their flaws in order to look more appealing and boost their chances of getting picked. Most presentation strategies used include a show of sincerity, use of personal front, constantly updating their profiles, withholding defects, portraying perfection, and perfect life (Labor, 2020). Despite this presentation strategy used, there are attributes considered during mate selection.…”

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“…Online dating revenue has increased by 50% in the last half a decade (Gupta, 2021), to stand at $3.08 billion in 2018 (Sautter et al, 2010). The usage of dating websites has surged by 71% during the previous ten years in the Philippines (Labor, 2020). Apart from Western apps and sites like Tinder, SilverSingles Match.com, and EliteSingles.com, this growth is also shared by Asian founded apps and websites like Momo, TanTan, BeeTalk, Paktor, Bumble, Her, EastmeetEast, TrulyAsian, FindloveAsian, and many more others (Cabanes & Collantes, 2020;G.…”

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Online Dating in Asia: A Systematic Literature Review

Low¹,

Bolong²,

Waheed³

et al. 2022

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The use of apps and online sites is widespread in Asia. With the usage of apps like TanTan, Bumble, Momo, Grindr, and many more others being on the rise. This review aims to collect study data, to understand the online dating environment in Asia. To accomplish the set objective, this review is carried out following guidelines outlined in the ROSES review protocol. To identify articles, a search was done on Scopus and Emerald databases using a combination of keywords. Google Scholar was used as an additional database. 19 items from the search met the requirements for inclusion. According to the findings of this literature research, there is a large number of persons participating in digital dating in Asia. Several individuals use dating apps or websites to meet love and sexual partners, mingle, enjoy themselves, and fulfil their curiosity. Some apps are even used as anti-stigma tools, meaning people should be allowed the freedom to date or love regardless of sexual orientation (heterosexual or homosexual), age, race, religion and many other factors. The use of apps has also been linked to depersonalization issues, where users are prone to presenting an idealised version of themselves and their circumstances, to improve their success in mate selection. According to this review, some of the attributes considered during mate selection are age, height, income status; with most online dating requirements being materialistic, physical build and attractiveness-oriented, prioritizing desire to have children, and education level. Though there are many benefits, especially when it has helped during the COVID-19 pandemic where people are mostly staying home, digital dating has also been associated with risky casual sex behaviours and the promotion of substance abuse among dating app users in Asia. Yet, this study will benefit and is important for scholars and online dating application (apps) companies to understand that not all western theories are applicable in Asian community as westerners are known to be individualistic in nature and habits whereas Asians are collectivist and have different needs when it comes to online dating.

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Section: Mate Selection and Preferencesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Online Dating in Asia: A Systematic Literature Review

Low¹,

Bolong²,

Waheed³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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“…And while much previous research has witnessed about the abilities of digital media to enable quick connectivity especially between same-sex-desiring men (e.g. Ahlm, 2017;Batiste, 2013;Labor, 2020;Licoppe et al, 2016;Møller, 2017;Mowlabocus, 2010;Race, 2015), many of those I interviewed were initially rather passively lurking around, or at most anonymously chatting. For Aslan, for example, it would take months before he was using the MSN group he had found with such exclaimed thrill to actively contact anyone.…”

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A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia

Tudor

2022

New Media & Society

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This article asks what it means to habituate a queer orientation in a world permeated by digital connectivity. In doing so, it takes media phenomenology away from the mundane towards the momentous, drawing on queer phenomenology, and existential media studies. Using life-narrative interviews with sexual minorities in Russia, the article sheds light on the “work of queer habituation” in a straight world, and the contemporary significance of digital media technologies within this process. Digital media’s ability to multiply space is defined a key feature which offers sites to “stay with” the disorienting experience of queer dispositions. Through longer periods of discrete “queer digital dwelling,” individuals who have been associating their queer desires with ontological threats are able to find space for existence and existential security. By locating others in close proximity, some are also allowed to appropriate local territory in ways that make it more livable.

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“…For Filipinos, the idea of diaspora is nothing new; migration, one of the interwoven components of the global workforce, has always been associated with them (Aguilar, 2015;Labor, 2020;Lu, 2013;Misajon & Khoo, 2008). From the first offshore Filipino farmworkers in Hawaii in the middle of the 1900s to the skilled workers and domestic assistants currently relocated in Middle Eastern nations and other Asian nations, the terms' diaspora' and 'migration' have been popular household terms (Pacoma, 2020).…”

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Selected Filipino-Chinese small-medium entrepreneur communication management practices in the Philippines

Ditan

2022

Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies

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Chinese entrepreneurial activities diaspora in Southeast Asia have received ample attention in academic debates. This academic attention is related to an impressive business presence of ethnic Chinese companies in the region, which seek explanations. Several works of literature have emerged arguing that because of specific cultural traits (personal networks, ethnic affinity, and Confucian Work Ethics), ethnic Chinese businesses function successfully in their new home countries and business contacts across borders. This study aims to describe the communication management practices of Filipino-Chinese Small Medium Enterprises (SME) entrepreneurs in terms of planning, leadership, organising and control. The method used in this study is phenomenology with data collection using interviews with six respondents and three Philippine government officials. The conclusion of this study shows that in terms of risk behaviour, the Filipino-Chinese entrepreneurs had a positive outlook by believing that taking risks is one key factor in business success.

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Mobile Sexuality: Presentations of Young Filipinos in Dating Apps

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Online Dating in Asia: A Systematic Literature Review

Online Dating in Asia: A Systematic Literature Review

A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia

Selected Filipino-Chinese small-medium entrepreneur communication management practices in the Philippines

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