L S Chan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 45138 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L S Chan |
| PRENOMES | L S |
| SOBRENOME | Chan |
| ASSINATURA | CHAN L S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9153-2234 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
How not to train your AI companion to be racist
Boys’ Love as Conditional Resilience
Boys’ Love (BL) is a fictional genre that depicts homoerotic relationships between two men. As it is often regarded as created by women and for women, most BL-related studies have focused on its female participants. In recent decades, the BL subculture has transformed into a transnational cultural phenomenon. Although such popularity may suggest that more homoerotic media products are available to gay/bisexual men, the heteronormative nature of B…
Using pictureless dating apps
The use of profile photos is central to most dating apps, yet some apps deliberately delay the display of photos. This study examines user experiences on pictureless dating apps, with a focus on Heymandi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 Gen Z (i.e., 18–25 years old) users in Hong Kong to address three research questions: (1) what affordances motivate users to adopt pictureless dating apps, (2) how users self-present in a text-on…
The Association Between Dating App Usage and Body Image Dissatisfaction among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong
Introduction Recent studies show that men who have sex with men (MSM) face body image concerns. This research examines the link between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young MSM in Hong Kong, based on the transactional model of social media and body image concerns and cultivation theory. Methods A mixed-methods design was employed, with a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. In the quantitative phase, 214 youn…
University Students' Condom Use During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Humans instinctively adopt methods to reduce their risk of encountering harmful pathogens, yet their adherence to preventive health practices can often be erratic. Condoms exemplify one vital preventive tool against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that, despite their effectiveness, are not consistently utilized. This pattern of behavior appears to persist even during periods of widespread disease transmission, with varied data from the COV…
Dating App Use, Self-Disclosure, and Life Satisfaction Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men
Research on the relationship between dating app use and life satisfaction has produced mixed findings. This study, based on survey data from 330 self-identified young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (aged 18 to 34) in Taiwan, investigates how dating app use is associated with life satisfaction. Conditional process analysis found that greater self-disclosure on dating apps was directly linked to improved life satisfaction and in…
When politics meets dating
Political orientations are increasingly relevant to romantic relationships. Self-categorization theory suggests that individuals prefer partners with the same political views. However, few studies have identified the factors associated with willingness to date or not to date across the political divide. Using survey data from 416 single participants from Hong Kong, the study found that older, female, and participants who were politically neutral …
Cultural-Psychological Differences, Social Acceptance of Same-Sex Relationships, and Dating App Use Motives of Young GBMSM
Gay-specific mobile dating apps such as Grindr are popular among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) worldwide. However, how the use of these apps differs between regions is underexplored. In this study, we drew on the uses and gratifications literature and cross-cultural studies to examine how cultural-psychological differences (sensation seeking and communication apprehension) and social acceptance of same-sex relat…
How dating apps fail sexual minorities
Online dating and dating apps are meant to help sexual minorities find romantic partners, but they have also presented challenges and obstacles. Based on 27 in-depth interviews with lesbian, gay, and bisexual dating app users living in Taiwan, this exploratory study proposes the concept of hyperpersonal failure as a holistic framework for understanding these challenges. This framework specifies four types of failure, each corresponding to one ele…
Ambivalent, discontent, and sceptical
This study explores the significance of the legalisation of same-sex marriage for LGBTQ individuals in Taiwan, both as sexual minorities and as Taiwanese. Through in-depth interviews with 33 LGBTQ individuals, three distinct subject positions were identified: ambivalent homonationalists, who acknowledged their marginalised status but endorsed the state's homonationalist project; discontent nationalist queers, who expressed dissatisfaction with th…
Revisiting community and media
What roles do media play in community building? Based on life story interviews with 72 older gay men living in China, this study traces the rise and fall of four significant digital media platforms used by Chinese gay communities since the late 1990s. We propose the notion of community-based media affordance as an analytical device and show that the four platforms vary in terms of pervasiveness, self-presentation, searchability, visibility, edita…
Sexting Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Pattern Matters”
Looking for politically like‐minded partners
Scholarship on politics and romance has found that political homophily between couples is due to social sorting (i.e., people seeking politically like‐minded partners from the outset). However, it remains unclear how people do so in an online context. Based on interviews with dating app users in Hong Kong, this study explores individuals' self‐presentation and partner‐vetting strategies in their quests for politically like‐minded partners in a hi…
Multiple uses and anti-purposefulness on Momo, a Chinese dating/social app
Momo is becoming a popular mobile platform in China to date, hook up, and engage in social networking. Based on in-depth interviews with 35 dating app users and a survey of 250 current Momo users, I provide a detailed empirical account of the multiple uses of Momo. Momo users used Momo differently, with systematic gender differences and differences among people of various marital statuses. Furthermore, my informants used the notion of mudixing (p…
Between sexuality and professionalism
Recent scholarship on gay social apps has largely focused on the experiences of their users. In this article, we take a production-side approach to examine the politics of sexuality and professionalism in Blued, a Chinese gay social app company. Based on ethnography at the company and in-depth interviews with its workers, we found that workers at Blued actively weaved their sexual identity into their professional identity. Also, its CEO made use …
Domesticating Gay Apps
Drawing on domestication theory and intersectionality theory, this study explores the multiple roles dating apps play in Chinese gay men’s lives amid changing personal and social circumstances. We present in-depth narratives of three Blued users from different generations and classes with unique relationship statuses. The app’s geo-locative features strengthened the gay capital of our younger participant but threatened our middle-aged, closeted p…
Social constructivist account of the world’s largest gay social app
Given China’s political conservativism and limited social acceptance of sexual minorities, it is paradoxical to find that Blued, a gay social app headquartered in Beijing, has become the largest app of this kind globally. Informed by the social construction of technology perspective and based on a yearlong ethnography, this article identifies three major factors that have shaped the developmental trajectory of Blued: (1) work with the Communist P…
Framing same-sex marriage in U.S. liberal and conservative newspapers from 2004 to 2016
Based on a content analysis of 326 news stories from three liberal and three conservative U.S. newspapers, this study explored how the newspapers framed the same-sex marriage issue from 2004 to 2016. “Human rights,” “access to benefits,” and “public support” were the three dominant issue attributes newspapers used to support same-sex marriage, while “protection of traditional marriage,” “public objection,” and “securing of conservative voters’ su…
Paradoxical Associations of Masculine Ideology and Casual Sex Among Heterosexual Male Geosocial Networking App Users in China
Liberating or Disciplining? A Technofeminist Analysis of the use of Dating Apps Among Women in Urban China
Based on the technofeminist perspective, I examine how dating apps disrupt yet reproduce existing gender dynamics in China. Female dating app users offer multiple interpretations of why they use dating apps: as a laboratory to experience sexuality, a springboard to romance and marriage, a third place between home and the workplace, and a door to new worlds. They also face several challenges in using dating apps, including resisting social stigma,…
Who uses dating apps? Exploring the relationships among trust, sensation-seeking, smartphone use, and the intent to use dating apps based on the Integrative Model
Ambivalence in networked intimacy
The increasing popularity of mobile dating apps in the past decade has transformed the ways in which gay men network with each other. Based on sociology and media studies literature, I contextualize this contemporary form of intimacy, which is known as networked intimacy, in relation to networked individualism and neoliberalism. Using a mixed-methods design with interviews ( N = 7) and a survey ( N = 245), this study explored how gay men experien…
The Role of Gay Identity Confusion and Outness in Sex-Seeking on Mobile Dating Apps Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Mobile dating apps are now a popular platform for men who have sex with men (MSM) to connect with others. Based on the uses and gratifications (U&G) theory, this study explores the relationship between sex-seeking and the number of casual sex partners met through MSM-based mobile dating apps (Grindr, Jack'd, and SCRUFF). The conditional process analysis (N = 401) shows that this relationship was significant and was mediated by the intensity of ap…
Cultivation and erosion of creative identity
Drawing on an ethnography of a middle-scale advertising agency in Hong Kong, I show that although the advertising creatives in this agency do not suffer from the precariousness common to many creative workers, their job security locks them into a position where the four aspects of the evolving economies and industrial landscape – the diminishing romantic myth of a creative, the tightening of production times, the marginalization of Hong Kong’s ad…
Ambivalence in networked intimacy
The increasing popularity of mobile dating apps in the past decade has transformed the ways in which gay men network with each other. Based on sociology and media studies literature, I contextualize this contemporary form of intimacy, which is known as networked intimacy, in relation to networked individualism and neoliberalism. Using a mixed-methods design with interviews ( N = 7) and a survey ( N = 245), this study explored how gay men experien…
The Role of Gay Identity Confusion and Outness in Sex-Seeking on Mobile Dating Apps Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Mobile dating apps are now a popular platform for men who have sex with men (MSM) to connect with others. Based on the uses and gratifications (U&G) theory, this study explores the relationship between sex-seeking and the number of casual sex partners met through MSM-based mobile dating apps (Grindr, Jack'd, and SCRUFF). The conditional process analysis (N = 401) shows that this relationship was significant and was mediated by the intensity of ap…
Liberating or Disciplining? A Technofeminist Analysis of the use of Dating Apps Among Women in Urban China
Based on the technofeminist perspective, I examine how dating apps disrupt yet reproduce existing gender dynamics in China. Female dating app users offer multiple interpretations of why they use dating apps: as a laboratory to experience sexuality, a springboard to romance and marriage, a third place between home and the workplace, and a door to new worlds. They also face several challenges in using dating apps, including resisting social stigma,…
Domesticating Gay Apps
Drawing on domestication theory and intersectionality theory, this study explores the multiple roles dating apps play in Chinese gay men’s lives amid changing personal and social circumstances. We present in-depth narratives of three Blued users from different generations and classes with unique relationship statuses. The app’s geo-locative features strengthened the gay capital of our younger participant but threatened our middle-aged, closeted p…
Social constructivist account of the world’s largest gay social app
Given China’s political conservativism and limited social acceptance of sexual minorities, it is paradoxical to find that Blued, a gay social app headquartered in Beijing, has become the largest app of this kind globally. Informed by the social construction of technology perspective and based on a yearlong ethnography, this article identifies three major factors that have shaped the developmental trajectory of Blued: (1) work with the Communist P…
Framing same-sex marriage in U.S. liberal and conservative newspapers from 2004 to 2016
Based on a content analysis of 326 news stories from three liberal and three conservative U.S. newspapers, this study explored how the newspapers framed the same-sex marriage issue from 2004 to 2016. “Human rights,” “access to benefits,” and “public support” were the three dominant issue attributes newspapers used to support same-sex marriage, while “protection of traditional marriage,” “public objection,” and “securing of conservative voters’ su…
Impact of a regional infant dispatch center on neonatal mortality
In 1976, a regional Infant Medical Dispatch Center (IMDC) was implemented in Southern California to improve the lives and well-being of the critically ill newborn infants by expediting location of beds in neonatal intensive care units. Comparison of birth weight-specific neonatal mortality rates among 701-2000 grams neonates before and after the program showed a six-fold improvement in hospitals served by the Center over hospitals not served by t…
Cultural-Psychological Differences, Social Acceptance of Same-Sex Relationships, and Dating App Use Motives of Young GBMSM
Gay-specific mobile dating apps such as Grindr are popular among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) worldwide. However, how the use of these apps differs between regions is underexplored. In this study, we drew on the uses and gratifications literature and cross-cultural studies to examine how cultural-psychological differences (sensation seeking and communication apprehension) and social acceptance of same-sex relat…
How dating apps fail sexual minorities
Online dating and dating apps are meant to help sexual minorities find romantic partners, but they have also presented challenges and obstacles. Based on 27 in-depth interviews with lesbian, gay, and bisexual dating app users living in Taiwan, this exploratory study proposes the concept of hyperpersonal failure as a holistic framework for understanding these challenges. This framework specifies four types of failure, each corresponding to one ele…
Between sexuality and professionalism
Recent scholarship on gay social apps has largely focused on the experiences of their users. In this article, we take a production-side approach to examine the politics of sexuality and professionalism in Blued, a Chinese gay social app company. Based on ethnography at the company and in-depth interviews with its workers, we found that workers at Blued actively weaved their sexual identity into their professional identity. Also, its CEO made use …
Sexting Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Paradoxical Associations of Masculine Ideology and Casual Sex Among Heterosexual Male Geosocial Networking App Users in China
Cultivation and erosion of creative identity
Drawing on an ethnography of a middle-scale advertising agency in Hong Kong, I show that although the advertising creatives in this agency do not suffer from the precariousness common to many creative workers, their job security locks them into a position where the four aspects of the evolving economies and industrial landscape – the diminishing romantic myth of a creative, the tightening of production times, the marginalization of Hong Kong’s ad…
Boys’ Love as Conditional Resilience
Boys’ Love (BL) is a fictional genre that depicts homoerotic relationships between two men. As it is often regarded as created by women and for women, most BL-related studies have focused on its female participants. In recent decades, the BL subculture has transformed into a transnational cultural phenomenon. Although such popularity may suggest that more homoerotic media products are available to gay/bisexual men, the heteronormative nature of B…
The Association Between Dating App Usage and Body Image Dissatisfaction among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong
Introduction Recent studies show that men who have sex with men (MSM) face body image concerns. This research examines the link between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young MSM in Hong Kong, based on the transactional model of social media and body image concerns and cultivation theory. Methods A mixed-methods design was employed, with a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. In the quantitative phase, 214 youn…
Ambivalent, discontent, and sceptical
This study explores the significance of the legalisation of same-sex marriage for LGBTQ individuals in Taiwan, both as sexual minorities and as Taiwanese. Through in-depth interviews with 33 LGBTQ individuals, three distinct subject positions were identified: ambivalent homonationalists, who acknowledged their marginalised status but endorsed the state's homonationalist project; discontent nationalist queers, who expressed dissatisfaction with th…
Impact of a regional infant dispatch center on neonatal mortality
In 1976, a regional Infant Medical Dispatch Center (IMDC) was implemented in Southern California to improve the lives and well-being of the critically ill newborn infants by expediting location of beds in neonatal intensive care units. Comparison of birth weight-specific neonatal mortality rates among 701-2000 grams neonates before and after the program showed a six-fold improvement in hospitals served by the Center over hospitals not served by t…
Magnetic susceptibility study of Late Quaternary inner continental shelf sediments in the Hong Kong SAR, China
Cultivation and erosion of creative identity
Drawing on an ethnography of a middle-scale advertising agency in Hong Kong, I show that although the advertising creatives in this agency do not suffer from the precariousness common to many creative workers, their job security locks them into a position where the four aspects of the evolving economies and industrial landscape – the diminishing romantic myth of a creative, the tightening of production times, the marginalization of Hong Kong’s ad…
Who uses dating apps? Exploring the relationships among trust, sensation-seeking, smartphone use, and the intent to use dating apps based on the Integrative Model
Ambivalence in networked intimacy
The increasing popularity of mobile dating apps in the past decade has transformed the ways in which gay men network with each other. Based on sociology and media studies literature, I contextualize this contemporary form of intimacy, which is known as networked intimacy, in relation to networked individualism and neoliberalism. Using a mixed-methods design with interviews ( N = 7) and a survey ( N = 245), this study explored how gay men experien…
The Role of Gay Identity Confusion and Outness in Sex-Seeking on Mobile Dating Apps Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Mobile dating apps are now a popular platform for men who have sex with men (MSM) to connect with others. Based on the uses and gratifications (U&G) theory, this study explores the relationship between sex-seeking and the number of casual sex partners met through MSM-based mobile dating apps (Grindr, Jack'd, and SCRUFF). The conditional process analysis (N = 401) shows that this relationship was significant and was mediated by the intensity of ap…
Liberating or Disciplining? A Technofeminist Analysis of the use of Dating Apps Among Women in Urban China
Based on the technofeminist perspective, I examine how dating apps disrupt yet reproduce existing gender dynamics in China. Female dating app users offer multiple interpretations of why they use dating apps: as a laboratory to experience sexuality, a springboard to romance and marriage, a third place between home and the workplace, and a door to new worlds. They also face several challenges in using dating apps, including resisting social stigma,…
Framing same-sex marriage in U.S. liberal and conservative newspapers from 2004 to 2016
Based on a content analysis of 326 news stories from three liberal and three conservative U.S. newspapers, this study explored how the newspapers framed the same-sex marriage issue from 2004 to 2016. “Human rights,” “access to benefits,” and “public support” were the three dominant issue attributes newspapers used to support same-sex marriage, while “protection of traditional marriage,” “public objection,” and “securing of conservative voters’ su…
Paradoxical Associations of Masculine Ideology and Casual Sex Among Heterosexual Male Geosocial Networking App Users in China
Multiple uses and anti-purposefulness on Momo, a Chinese dating/social app
Momo is becoming a popular mobile platform in China to date, hook up, and engage in social networking. Based on in-depth interviews with 35 dating app users and a survey of 250 current Momo users, I provide a detailed empirical account of the multiple uses of Momo. Momo users used Momo differently, with systematic gender differences and differences among people of various marital statuses. Furthermore, my informants used the notion of mudixing (p…
Between sexuality and professionalism
Recent scholarship on gay social apps has largely focused on the experiences of their users. In this article, we take a production-side approach to examine the politics of sexuality and professionalism in Blued, a Chinese gay social app company. Based on ethnography at the company and in-depth interviews with its workers, we found that workers at Blued actively weaved their sexual identity into their professional identity. Also, its CEO made use …
Domesticating Gay Apps
Drawing on domestication theory and intersectionality theory, this study explores the multiple roles dating apps play in Chinese gay men’s lives amid changing personal and social circumstances. We present in-depth narratives of three Blued users from different generations and classes with unique relationship statuses. The app’s geo-locative features strengthened the gay capital of our younger participant but threatened our middle-aged, closeted p…
Social constructivist account of the world’s largest gay social app
Given China’s political conservativism and limited social acceptance of sexual minorities, it is paradoxical to find that Blued, a gay social app headquartered in Beijing, has become the largest app of this kind globally. Informed by the social construction of technology perspective and based on a yearlong ethnography, this article identifies three major factors that have shaped the developmental trajectory of Blued: (1) work with the Communist P…
Looking for politically like‐minded partners
Scholarship on politics and romance has found that political homophily between couples is due to social sorting (i.e., people seeking politically like‐minded partners from the outset). However, it remains unclear how people do so in an online context. Based on interviews with dating app users in Hong Kong, this study explores individuals' self‐presentation and partner‐vetting strategies in their quests for politically like‐minded partners in a hi…
Pattern Matters”
Revisiting community and media
What roles do media play in community building? Based on life story interviews with 72 older gay men living in China, this study traces the rise and fall of four significant digital media platforms used by Chinese gay communities since the late 1990s. We propose the notion of community-based media affordance as an analytical device and show that the four platforms vary in terms of pervasiveness, self-presentation, searchability, visibility, edita…
Sexting Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong and Taiwan
When politics meets dating
Political orientations are increasingly relevant to romantic relationships. Self-categorization theory suggests that individuals prefer partners with the same political views. However, few studies have identified the factors associated with willingness to date or not to date across the political divide. Using survey data from 416 single participants from Hong Kong, the study found that older, female, and participants who were politically neutral …
Cultural-Psychological Differences, Social Acceptance of Same-Sex Relationships, and Dating App Use Motives of Young GBMSM
Gay-specific mobile dating apps such as Grindr are popular among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) worldwide. However, how the use of these apps differs between regions is underexplored. In this study, we drew on the uses and gratifications literature and cross-cultural studies to examine how cultural-psychological differences (sensation seeking and communication apprehension) and social acceptance of same-sex relat…
How dating apps fail sexual minorities
Online dating and dating apps are meant to help sexual minorities find romantic partners, but they have also presented challenges and obstacles. Based on 27 in-depth interviews with lesbian, gay, and bisexual dating app users living in Taiwan, this exploratory study proposes the concept of hyperpersonal failure as a holistic framework for understanding these challenges. This framework specifies four types of failure, each corresponding to one ele…
Ambivalent, discontent, and sceptical
This study explores the significance of the legalisation of same-sex marriage for LGBTQ individuals in Taiwan, both as sexual minorities and as Taiwanese. Through in-depth interviews with 33 LGBTQ individuals, three distinct subject positions were identified: ambivalent homonationalists, who acknowledged their marginalised status but endorsed the state's homonationalist project; discontent nationalist queers, who expressed dissatisfaction with th…
Boys’ Love as Conditional Resilience
Boys’ Love (BL) is a fictional genre that depicts homoerotic relationships between two men. As it is often regarded as created by women and for women, most BL-related studies have focused on its female participants. In recent decades, the BL subculture has transformed into a transnational cultural phenomenon. Although such popularity may suggest that more homoerotic media products are available to gay/bisexual men, the heteronormative nature of B…
Using pictureless dating apps
The use of profile photos is central to most dating apps, yet some apps deliberately delay the display of photos. This study examines user experiences on pictureless dating apps, with a focus on Heymandi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 Gen Z (i.e., 18–25 years old) users in Hong Kong to address three research questions: (1) what affordances motivate users to adopt pictureless dating apps, (2) how users self-present in a text-on…
The Association Between Dating App Usage and Body Image Dissatisfaction among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong
Introduction Recent studies show that men who have sex with men (MSM) face body image concerns. This research examines the link between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young MSM in Hong Kong, based on the transactional model of social media and body image concerns and cultivation theory. Methods A mixed-methods design was employed, with a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. In the quantitative phase, 214 youn…
University Students' Condom Use During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Humans instinctively adopt methods to reduce their risk of encountering harmful pathogens, yet their adherence to preventive health practices can often be erratic. Condoms exemplify one vital preventive tool against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that, despite their effectiveness, are not consistently utilized. This pattern of behavior appears to persist even during periods of widespread disease transmission, with varied data from the COV…
Psychology (19 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (15 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (11 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (8 obras)