Queering Iran, digitally: Implicit activism and LGBTQI+ dating on Telegram

Rahbari, Ladan

doi:10.5117/tvgn2022.2.003.rahb

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“…We will discuss the notion of 'affordance' in the sense of dynamics and conditions enabled by platforms and the sociotechnical environment of which they are a part (Boyd, 2010;Davis & Chouinard, 2016;Schrock, 2015). Affordances are how objectsincluding digital platformsimpact or shape the actions of socially situated subjects by enabling and constraining their activities (Rahbari, 2022). We have rallied around the notion of 'affordances' because it offers a way to consider how technologies are constructed and situated on the one hand and how they determine user behavior on the other (Hutchby, 2001).…”

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Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’

Rahbari,

Kavka,

Paisley

et al. 2023

DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies

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This roundtable paper is part of the project ‘Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge.’ It aims to investigate how digital dating apps reconfigure cultural attitudes to love and intimacy and, conversely, how said attitudes influence digital dating practices. The conversation is informed by (n)ethnographic usage of the app. As algorithms and affordances of dating applications can implicitly or explicitly privilege certain groups of users and exclude others, this conversation mainly aims to make sense of how Hinge’s interface – or ‘affordances’– facilitates the dating process and how inclusive and diverse the application’s affordances are. We discuss that there is a contradiction between what Hinge portrays itself to be and what it practically ends up being, partly because of its affordances. This roundtable highlights the need to study affordances as relational technologies and to take the perceptions, ideas, and interpretations of users seriously alongside the actual features and designs offered by applications.

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