Gay Men, Identity and Social Media

A Culture of Participatory Reluctance

Bibliographic Data

ID7525007
AuthorsElija Cassidy (0000-0001-8019-8560, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-04-09
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGay Men, Identity and Social Media (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315737027
OpenAlexW4255750240
Open LibraryOL37276893M
ISBN9781315737027
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDNpdNDwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received14

This book explores how the social and technical integration of mainstream social media into gay men’s digital cultures since the mid 2000s has played out in the lives of young gay men, looking at how these convergences have influenced more recent iterations of gay men’s digital culture. Focusing on platforms such as Gaydar, Facebook, Grindr and Instagram, Cassidy highlights the ways that identity and privacy management issues experienced in this context have helped to generate a culture of participatory reluctance within gay men’s digital environments

Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gay men · Médias sociaux · Online identities · Social conditions · Social media

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