Digital geographies
Online spaces and gay identity in twenty-first-century France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19001425 |
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| Authors | Brian Troth (independent scholar, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-244 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French Civilization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-9156 • E-ISSN: 2044-396X |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/cfc.2020.13 |
| OpenAlex | W3045606394 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In 2017, Erik Rémès criticized gay men in France for spending too much time on their cell phones. As smartphones and apps have become integrated in French society as modes of communication, it is time to consider the role social networking apps play in creating gay identity. This article argues that applications such as Grindr, Scruff, Hornet, and Tinder have reshaped the urban landscape that has been crucial in the creation of gay identity and that digital spaces complement traditional urban geographies. It advances lines of thought such as that introduced by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner’s “Sex in Public” to contend that these apps fulfill a need for the creation of queer spaces. The article uses close analysis of Jérôme Reybaud’s Jours de France (2017) to demonstrate the relationship between the digital and the physical and the ways in which gay men construct identity through apps. Finally, it argues that digital spaces are vital in preserving gay ways of life in the twenty-first century
Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music) · Sociology · Anthropology · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · French Urban and Social Studies · Gender Studies · Political and Social Issues
| Highly cited | No |
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