Zero Feet Away: The Digital Geography of Gay Social Media. Issue 3 (3rd March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roth, Yoel
• Is Part Of: Journal of homosexuality. Volume 63:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 437
• Page End: 442
• Publication Date: 2016-03-03
• Subjects: AIDS -- bioethics -- geosocial networking -- HIV prevention -- LGBT health -- media studies -- sexual health -- social media -- technology studies; Homosexuality -- Periodicals; 306.766
• DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2016.1124707
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0091-8369

Abstract

ABSTRACT: For this contribution to the "Cartographies" section of the special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics, " the author focuses on the terrains of digital media, geosocial networking, and sexually based social media in LGBT communities. Addressing the communal potentials and ethical complications of geosocial connections made possible by such sexually based social media, the author asks whether digital forms of cartography via applications such as Grindr and Scruff simplify, complicate, or merely expose historically longstanding notions of queer interconnectivity.