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Digital Intimacies: how gay and bisexual men use smartphones to negotiate their cultures of intimacy

数字亲密：同性恋和双性恋男性如何使用智能手机来协商他们的亲密文化

基本信息

批准号：
ES/S007016/1
负责人：
Jamie Hakim
金额：
$ 30.8万
依托单位：
University of East Anglia
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS007016%2F1
关键词：
Digital Intimacies how gay bisexual

项目摘要

Since smartphones became widely available in 2007 both media, communications & cultural studies and public health academics have been researching how gay and bisexual men use them to negotiate their cultures of intimacy. This research has tended to focus on how these men use 'hook-up' applications, such as Grindr and Scruff, to organise casual sex encounters, particularly in relation to safer sex negotiation. In doing so, much of this research has enriched our understanding of gay and bisexual men's casual sex practices; informed HIV prevention strategies; and begun to shed light on the role of digital media in both of these related contexts.However, by focusing on hook-up apps, this research has so far overlooked some important issues that relate to smartphone use and intimacy amongst these men. Gay and bisexual men do not only use hook-up apps to negotiate their intimate lives, which are not exclusively defined by casual sex; they frequently migrate between different aspects of their smartphones (e.g. the phone itself, the camera, other social media applications) to practice different sorts of intimacy (e.g. monogamous relationships, open relationships, one off sexual encounters, on-going casual sex partners, infidelities). Researching these practices will have implications not only for popular understandings of gay and bisexual male intimacy (which are often over-determined by casual sex), but also for how effectively the public health sector can provide services that improve the overall health and wellbeing of these men beyond HIV prevention.The existing research also has a tendency to decontextualize this smartphone use, not fully accounting for the wider socio-cultural conditions in which this use takes place. Gay and bisexual men use smartphones to negotiate intimacy in socio-cultural contexts in which not only ideas and attitudes towards gay and bisexual men are changing (e.g. the legalization of gay marriage, liberalization of more general attitudes to gay and bisexual men) but the material conditions in which they practice intimacy are changing too (e.g. changes in gay nightlife; changes in HIV prevention and treatment; and constantly updating smartphone and internet technologies). This project begins from the cultural studies perspective that media use cannot be adequately made sense of outside of the cultures in which this use takes place. It therefore aims to understand the various ways that gay and bisexual men use different aspects of their smartphones to negotiate different sorts of intimacies within these constantly shifting socio-cultural conditions. It will do this by deploying an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in public health and media and cultural studies and by working closely with the project's partners - Terrence Higgins Trust, London Friend and Waverley Care - all key third sector organisations working with gay and bisexual men. Drawing on these various expertise, this project will use an innovative mixed method approach that combines cultural analysis with qualitative methods. The qualitative methods will be interviews and focus groups with 40 men from two different locations in the UK - London and both rural and urban parts of Eastern Scotland. This dual sited approach is designed to capture place-based cultural differences in smartphone use amongst this group. The cultural analysis will look at a wide range of documents that will help map the context for this smartphone use, from, for example, media representations to policy documents. The project will form its conclusions by performing a cross-case analysis across the data sets - providing a rich and nuanced picture of this sort of smartphone use in relation to the wider socio-cultural conditions in which it takes place.

自2007年智能手机普及以来，媒体、传播和文化研究以及公共卫生学者一直在研究同性恋和双性恋男性如何利用智能手机来协商他们的亲密文化。这项研究倾向于关注这些男性如何使用“勾搭”应用程序，如Grindr和Scruff，组织随意的性接触，特别是与安全性行为谈判有关。在这样做的过程中，这项研究的大部分内容丰富了我们对男同性恋和双性恋男性随意性行为的理解;为艾滋病预防策略提供了信息;并开始阐明数字媒体在这两种相关背景下的作用。然而，由于专注于勾搭应用程序，这项研究迄今为止忽略了与这些男性使用智能手机和亲密关系有关的一些重要问题。同性恋和双性恋男性不仅使用勾搭应用程序来协商他们的亲密生活，这不仅仅是由随意的性行为定义的;他们频繁地在他们的智能手机的不同方面（例如，电话本身、照相机、其他社交媒体应用）之间迁移，以实践不同种类的亲密关系（例如，一夫一妻制关系、开放关系、一次性接触、持续的临时性伴侣、亲密关系）。对这些行为的研究不仅会对同性恋和双性恋男性亲密关系的大众理解产生影响，（这往往是由随意的性行为过度决定），但也为公共卫生部门如何有效地提供服务，改善整体健康和福祉的这些男子超越艾滋病毒预防。现有的研究也有一种趋势，去情境化这种智能手机的使用，没有充分考虑到这种使用发生的更广泛的社会文化条件。男同性恋者和双性恋者使用智能手机在社会文化背景下协商亲密关系，不仅对男同性恋者和双性恋者的观念和态度正在发生变化，（例如，同性婚姻合法化，对同性恋和双性恋男子的普遍态度的自由化），但他们实践亲密关系的物质条件也在发生变化。（例如，同性恋夜生活的变化;艾滋病毒预防和治疗的变化;以及不断更新的智能手机和互联网技术）。这个项目从文化研究的角度出发，认为媒体的使用不能在文化之外得到充分的理解。因此，它的目的是了解同性恋和双性恋男子使用他们的智能手机的不同方面，在这些不断变化的社会文化条件下谈判不同种类的亲密关系的各种方式。它将通过部署一个具有公共卫生和媒体和文化研究背景的跨学科研究人员团队，并与该项目的合作伙伴- Terrence Higgins Trust，伦敦Friend和Waverley Care -所有与同性恋和双性恋男子合作的关键第三部门组织密切合作来实现这一目标。利用这些不同的专业知识，该项目将使用一种创新的混合方法，将文化分析与定性方法相结合。定性方法将是访谈和焦点小组与40名男子从两个不同的地点在英国-伦敦和农村和城市部分的苏格兰东部。这种双站点方法旨在捕捉这一群体中智能手机使用的基于地点的文化差异。文化分析将着眼于广泛的文件，这些文件将有助于绘制智能手机使用的背景，例如，从媒体陈述到政策文件。该项目将通过对数据集进行跨案例分析来得出结论-提供这种智能手机使用与其发生的更广泛的社会文化条件之间的丰富而微妙的关系。