Flirting technologies and erotic circles. Usages of Grindr among gay men from the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires
This paper aims to analyze how Grindr, an online dating and hooking-up app used by gay men, runs within a wider erotic circle framed by its relationships with other flirting technologies, both virtual and in-person. The work derives from a qualitative research conducted from October 2017 to November...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/mora/article/view/12766 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mora&d=12766_oai |
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| Sumario: | This paper aims to analyze how Grindr, an online dating and hooking-up app used by gay men, runs within a wider erotic circle framed by its relationships with other flirting technologies, both virtual and in-person. The work derives from a qualitative research conducted from October 2017 to November 2018 that sought to reconstruct the love stories of 30 gay men living in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Considering Grindr as a flirting technology that belongs to a wider erotic circle enables to observe four characteristics based on how these men use the app. First, how it is thought of in opposition to in-person spaces. Second, revealing its hegemonic character when examining how it becomes a generic of all virtual apps. Third, how this hegemony is cracked when the difference with other technologies turns up. Fourth, how previous distinctions are underestimated when focusing on the jumps among those technologies. The paper concludes with the need to reconsider these technologies as producers of erotism and restore the circular aspect of erotic exchanges. |
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