1,054 research outputs found
Confessional data selfies and intimate data traces
No full textPresented at Digital Intimacies 4 with Dr Brady Robards December 5, 2018. Curtin University, Perth.</div
“To be Queer, To be in Dating Apps, To be Queer in Dating Apps”: Biographical Queerness and the Creation of Safety Strategies in Online Dating behind Stigma and Fears of Italian LGBTQ+ Young Adults
No full textThis study examines the experiences of Italian LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and/or Queer) young adults (aged 19-35) navigating safety in online dating apps in the context of growing sociocultural challenges. Situating itself in the study of digital intimacies, the research explores how platform affordances, societal norms, and individual identity journeys shape digital dating safety practices and their perceptions among LGBTQ+ users. Drawing on eight focus groups with 39 people, in this article we employ thematic analysis to uncover users' experiences of risks, fears, and strategies for navigating safety on dating apps. These findings expand on Babcock et al.'s (2024) Safety Spectrum Theory Model by introducing the concept of "Biographical Queerness," which captures the dynamic and evolving relationship between LGBTQ+ users' identities, their digital practices, and the idea of modality spectrum between offline and online safety practices. The findings reveal that Italian LGBTQ+ young adults frequently face risks such as harassment, fetishisation, unsolicited explicit content, and the fear of being outed in both digital and physical spaces, based on their gender (identity and perception), and sexual orientation.. These risks are compounded by Italy's current sociocultural climate, which often stigmatises LGBTQ+ identities, making digital visibility a precarious endeavour. To mitigate risks, participants report employing a range of safety strategies spanning in-app, multi-app, and offline practices. Users’ approaches in the apps to safety are shaped by what we describe as their Biographical Queerness, which reflects their evolving gender and sexual identities and their sociocultural and biographical contexts. These strategies intersect with the Safety Spectrum Theory's (Babcock et al., 2024) categories of strict, fluid, and relaxed safety protocols, demonstrating how users adapt their behaviours based on perceived risks and contextual factors. By examining the interplay between LGBTQ+ identities, digital practices, and cultural contexts, this study nuances understanding of safety negotiation in digital dating spaces for LGBTQ+ users in Italy. This paper seeks to highlight the significance of identity-specific risks, platform affordances, and the sociocultural landscape shaping LGBTQ+ digital intimacy and safety practices
“This dapper hotty is working that tweed look”:Extending Workplace Affects on TubeCrush
No full textThis chapter analyse the website TubeCrush, where commuters share images of unsolicited attractive men on the London Underground. We define TubeCrush as a digital intimate public as it creates commonality in the desires of straight women and gay men. But TubeCrush also engages with and extends workplace affects through its location on the Tube, locating it in new urban post-Fordist economies. Our analysis brings together intimate publics and workplace affects by analysing love and romance, the celebration of financial masculinities and labours of the body. We argue that TubeCrush provides a sense of sociality and community, alleviating the alienation of the post-Fordist city. However, this is produced through an online distribution of images that orients the user to normative desires, closing down radical potential
Lucy Brady Papers - Accession 907 - M415 (466)
No full textLucy Agnes Brady (1899-1995) was a Winthrop graduate of the Class of 1920. The Lucy Brady Papers consist of programs of Winthrop events including the 1919 and 1920 Junior-Senior Receptions, a Banquet in honor of the returning World War I military men, piano recital, Christmas Vespers and the 1923 Annual Winthrop Dinner in Columbia, South Carolina; notes and letters to Miss Brady and a petition from the 1920 Seniors requesting a holiday instead of the usual trip to Magnolia Gardens. Of special note are letters from poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), author Margaret P. Sherwood (1864-1955) and author, minister and professor of English at Boston University, Dallas Lore Sharp (1870-1929).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1810/thumbnail.jp
Letter from J. Brady to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from J. Brady, 2 Princess Gardens, Belfast (County Antrim), to (Hagan). Commenting on the fact that the Liverpool Catholic Times reported on Rector Hinsley's return to Rome from holidays but does not do so in certain analogue cases; the English looking after their own very well. He and Mrs. Brady were in Nice for a while, seeing their relative Willy Fahy, brother of Frank Fahy, the author of The ould plaid shawl. They travelled as far as Algiers. Brief news about family members. Harry [...] visited; he is now president of the Medical Association for Leinster
Flash mobs and zombie shuffles: Play in the augmented city
No full textBird, SP ORCiD: 0000-0002-9591-7932In this chapter I will explore flash mobs as a form of mediated youth culture that exemplifies the shifts occurring in the ways that we view and use ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ public spaces
"Hey, i'm having these experiences": Tumblr use and young people's queer (dis)connections
No full text© 2019 Paul Byron, Brady Robards, Benjamin Hanckel, Son Vivienne, and Brendan Churchill. This article explores LGBTIQ+ young people's use of Tumblr-a social media platform often associated with queer youth cultures. Drawing on data from surveys (N = 1,304) and interviews (N = 23) with LGBTIQ+ young people in Australia, we argue that existing notions of "queer community" through digital media participation do not neatly align with young people's Tumblr practices. Our participants use Tumblr for connecting with others, yet these connections can be indirect, short term, and anonymous. Connections are often felt and practiced without directly communicating with other users, and many participants described their connections to the Tumblr platform itself as intense, pivotal to learning about genders and sexualities, and sometimes "toxic." We suggest that Tumblr use intensities reflect many young people's (dis)connections to queer life. Participant accounts of Tumblr use for identity, well-being, and (dis)connection practices can usefully inform health, education, and community workers engaging with LGBTIQ+ young people
Friending Participants: Managing the Researcher–Participant Relationship on Social Network Sites
No full textResearch into youth engagement with social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook highlights a complex set of ethical dimensions, which do not always translate easily from similar concerns in traditional offline research. On social network sites, it is clear that many young people are managing their online presences in strategic ways, often involving conventions around determining access to these spaces. If these sites are framed by their young users as at least 'partially private', how should the researcher seek access to these spaces and how should the researcher operate in these spaces if access is permitted? This article reflects on qualitative research undertaken by the author from 2007 to 2010, which involved 'friending' participants on MySpace and Facebook. Based on this reflection, and contextualized by an engagement with literature concerning both Internet research and youth research, this article argues that social network sites blur the public/private dichotomy. Thus, research engaging with participants on these sites requires ongoing ethical reflection around assumptions about public and private information, and researchers, institutional ethics committees and review boards must develop and make use of suitably informed expertise to both conduct and review future scholarship in this area.No Full Tex
Letter from K. Brady to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from K. Brady, Palace Hôtel, Dar-Diaf, Biskra (Algeria), to Hagan, in thanks for his letter. Comments on Miss Elliott and her travel plans. Then stating that the Algerians know nothing of Ireland but that they find the parallels striking once given a condensed Irish history. Finding the natives without 'the warlike spirit of the Morrocans (sic) nor the education of the Egyptians, so they just do nothing'. Approving of the French efforts in improving the country. The people are interesting though a little too persistent, and without pride- also 'they explain their domestic arrangements with a frankness that is sometimes rather disconcerting'. Mentioning meeting Fr. Magennis before leaving. Remarks about his discovery of the authorship of an article in The Nation; the author is a friend of Hagan's. The whole family is with (him) in Algeria; they are well
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