Going the Distance: Locative Dating Technology and Queer Male Practice-Based Identities

摘要: Hybridisation of digital and physical space is now a reality for geographies sexualities in the age. ‘This chapter builds on such an understanding by exploring how digital–physical hybridisation mediated locative dating apps can shape queer male ‘practice-based’ identities, these typologies turn inform encounters. Drawing from qualitative research project with men who have sex (MSM), I examine impact online connection different ‘routes’ to meeting. argue that certain modes behaviour help identify range practice-based implicitly linked forms hybridisation. Three exemplify identities: ‘Embracer’, ‘Time-waster’ ‘Minimalist’. These fluid overlap are even evident within single identity across time, depending personal motivation, ‘market’ available matches, app genre. Such demonstrate user engagement becomes bound up in, by, enabled popular mobile media platforms. The development identities be extrapolated beyond thinking about offline spaces new questions future sexualities, geographies.