The Gay Gayze: Expressions of Inequality on Grindr

Conner, Christopher T.

doi:10.1080/00380253.2018.1533394

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“…The second block of studies on the risks associated with dating apps refers to discrimination and aggression. Some authors, such as Conner [ 81 ] and Lauckner et al [ 43 ], have argued that technology, instead of reducing certain abusive cultural practices associated with deception, discrimination, or abuse (e.g., about body types, weight, age, rural environments, racism, HIV stigma), has accentuated them, and this can affect users’ mental health. Moreover, certain antisocial behaviors in apps, such as trolling [ 6 , 51 ], have been studied, and a relationship has been found between being a user of these applications and suffering some episode of sexual victimization, both in childhood and adulthood [ 30 ].…”

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Dating Apps and Their Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Correlates: A Systematic Review

Castro

Barrada

2020

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The emergence and popularization of dating apps have changed the way people meet and interact with potential romantic and sexual partners. In parallel with the increased use of these applications, a remarkable scientific literature has developed. However, due to the recency of the phenomenon, some gaps in the existing research can be expected. Therefore, the objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the empirical research of the psychosocial content published in the last five years (2016–2020) on dating apps. A search was conducted in different databases, and we identified 502 articles in our initial search. After screening titles and abstracts and examining articles in detail, 70 studies were included in the review. The most relevant data (author/s and year, sample size and characteristics, methodology) and their findings were extracted from each study and grouped into four blocks: user dating apps characteristics, usage characteristics, motives for use, and benefits and risks of use. The limitations of the literature consulted are discussed, as well as the practical implications of the results obtained, highlighting the relevance of dating apps, which have become a tool widely used by millions of people around the world.

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Dating Apps and Their Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Correlates: A Systematic Review

Castro

Barrada

2020

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“…Many studies (Albury & Byron, 2016;Blackwell, Birnholtz, & Abbott, 2014;Conner, 2019;Frith, 2017;Mason, 2016;Roth, 2014) of locative media app use demonstrate disturbing trends toward the over-simplification of difference among the urban dwellers using the apps. These studies also demonstrate a tendency among users to filter out differences and, in the process reinforcing and reifying existing racisms and other prejudices that al-ready exist in the offline world.…”

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“…Locative media apps typically provide users with ways to filter the information they see, usually based on some set of personal interests. Grindr, for example, allows gay men to set filters based on the types of men they are interested (or not interested) in meeting (Conner, 2019). Tinder, by contrast, requires that both users "swipe right" on respective profile pictures in order to connect with one another (David & Cambre, 2016).…”

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“…to those being filtered out (Conner, 2019;Mason, 2016). As one participant in Conner's (2019) study remarks: "Users can just select me out of the equation.…”

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“…However, we can also see the effects of intentional coding that causes marginalised people to become invisible in the gay dating apps Grindr and Scruff. Filtering functionality has been added to both to facilitate the erasure of some people as discussed earlier (Conner, 2019;Roth, 2014).…”

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The Gay Gayze: Expressions of Inequality on Grindr

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