The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics in Urban China

ISBN-13: 9780262542340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

Lik Sam Chan

Recenzje

Chan s innovative research connects everyday digital media uses to China s larger issues of gender, sexual, and queer politics. Taking neither a utopian nor a pessimistic stance, he unpacks the multiplicity of dating apps political and social effects on both marginalized groups and those in power. More importantly, this study precipitates further questions about dating apps potential to challenge heteronormativity, and to create space for marginalized individuals, in a society with shrinking room for feminist and queer politics. Current History

Spis treści

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
NOTES ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION xi
1 INTRODUCTION: DATING APPS HAVE POLITICS, TOO 1
2 ARE DATING APPS A FEMINIST TOOL? A TECHNOFEMINIST ANALYSIS 29
3 CUTE IS THE NEW MANLY: PERFORMANCE OF CHINESE MASCULINITIES 53
4 CYCLES OF UNINSTALLING AND REINSTALLING: CONTRADICTORY AFFECTS IN GAY APP USE 75
5 BUILDING A CIRCLE FOR QUEER WOMEN: AFFORDANCE OF COMMUNAL CONNECTIVITY 97
6 CONCLUSION: EMERGENCE OF NETWORKED SEXUAL PUBLICS 119
APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTION 131
NOTES 147
REFERENCES 155
INDEX 181

O autorze

Lik Sam Chan is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.