Text to sex

The impact of cell phones on hooking up and sexuality on campus

Bibliographic Data

ID13012085
AuthorsSascha L Goluboff (Washington and Lee University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume4
Issue1
Pages102-120
Publication date2015-09-18
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobile Media & Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2050-1579 • E-ISSN: 2050-1587
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2050157915603759
OpenAlexW2221419295
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited34

By centering attention on how students feel after casual sex, studies of the college social scene miss an extremely important phenomenon—namely, how hookups get started. This article argues that it is in the negotiation of contact during hookups that college students creatively navigate their sexual identity. Using a mixed methodology, this research reveals that the cell phone, as both an object of communication and consumption, is essential to the formation of self, and, as such, it provides the means by which men and women can play with gender boundaries. And yet, the male dominated fraternity system at college restricts the ability of women to realize full agency within the hookup scene

Agency (philosophy · Art · Casual · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Internet privacy · Negotiation · Phone · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Psychology

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