Queer geographies of spatial media

Bibliographic Data

ID5696435
AuthorsGraeme William Mearns (0000-0002-7353-7912), G Mearns (University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume14
Issue3
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gec3.12481
OpenAlexW2982179098
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited106

Digital media scholarship is burgeoning. However, there remains a paucity of queer geographies accounting for hybridity and multi-directionality of coexisting, variegated and embodied spaces produced through spatial media nor the technologies that enable these media (smartphones, tablet computers, and self-tracking devices). Bringing together literatures on sexuality and the first and second iterations of the internet, this article extends debate about the uneven and paradoxical queer geographies of location-aware applications (Tinder and Grindr) and other spatial media now often taken as "composite" of queer cultures globally. The article encourages those with interest in the interrelationships between sexualities and space to emphasise further the historical, cultural, and political specificities of the places in which these diverse media are designed, developed, and consumed. The purpose of doing so, I contend, is to deepen knowledge of heightened commercialisation whilst unravelling complex questions of data ownership, privacy and cultural norms that could exacerbate disparities in sexual citizenship

Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Cyberspace · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Hybridity · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Queer · Scholarship · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology