From 'Love Actually' to 'Love Aptually': An Investigation Into The Impact of New Social Media Technology on Gender and Sexual Scripts.

这个项目借鉴了性爱脚本理论，探索了年轻人使用移动约会应用程序的多层次方式，以及这是如何重新配置性别和性脚本的。性剧本理论提供了一种概念装置来解释相互竞争的现代文化产物是如何持续塑造隐喻的性剧本和性别剧本的。这项研究将建立在现有的使用性剧本理论的著作的基础上，但也将利用科学和技术研究的见解，以探索性的不同含义和用途的形成中技术可能产生的影响。尽管移动约会应用的激增，但直到最近，T文献才开始将移动约会应用作为一种独特的社会现象来处理，而且主要是在男同性恋人群中。据我所知，这个项目很有兴趣在这一新兴文献的基础上进行研究，明确地了解异性恋用户与移动约会应用程序相互作用的方式，以重建或重新配置性别和性脚本。这项研究将通过对来自不同社会经济和种族背景的男性和女性的定性访谈，收集成年人使用移动约会应用程序的经验，目的是进一步了解他们对使用移动约会应用程序的社会和性别脚本性质、自我呈现策略、真实性管理和感知的风险的影响。

Drawing on Sexual Script Theory, this project explores the multi-layeredways in which young people are using mobile dating applications andhow this is reconfiguring gender and sexual scripts. Sexual Script Theoryprovides the conceptual apparatus to interpret how competing moderncultural artifacts continually shape metaphorical sexual and genderscripts. This research will build upon the existing body of work whichhas used Sexual Script Theory, but will also employ insights fromScience and Technology Studies in order to also explore the impactstechnologies can have in the formation of the diverse meanings and usesof the sexual.Despite the proliferation of mobile dating applications, it is only recentlythat literature has started to address mobile dating applications as a distinctsocial phenomenon, and predominantly among gay male populations. Thisproject is interested in building on this newly emerging body of literature,as to my knowledge little or no research has been conducted whichexplicitly looks to understand the ways heterosexual users interact withmobile dating applications to reconstruct or reconfigure gender and sexualscripts.Using qualitative interviews with men and women from a variety of socioeconomicand ethnic backgrounds, this research will gather experiences,from adults, regarding their use of mobile dating applications, with theintention of understanding further their impact on the socially and sexuallyscripted nature of motivation of use, self-presentation strategies,authenticity management and perceived risks of using mobile datingapplications.