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Dating apps and gay travellers: Hyper-local and virtual-physical leisure
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Vorobjovas-Pinta, O, Dating apps and gay travellers: Hyper-local and virtual-physical leisure, Conference Handbook in CAUTHE 2018 Get Smart: Paradoxes and Possibilities in Tourism, Hospitality and Events, 05-08 February 2018, Newcastle, NSW, pp. 95. ISBN 978-0-9945141-3-4 (2018) [Conference Extract]
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Abstract
This working paper informs about the use of gay dating apps within contemporary gay community, and the spatial reorientation stemming from the juxtaposition of physical and digital geographies. These data indicate that gay apps remain a pervasive way of making connections, even in an environment where common homosexuality is a reasonable expectation, and where open self-expression is permitted and even encouraged. This complicates assumptions that gay apps’ emergence was in response to a need for privacy or anonymity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in wider, straight society.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Conference Extract |
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| Keywords: | dating apps, digital space, gay resort, gay travel |
| Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
| Research Group: | Tourism |
| Research Field: | Tourist behaviour and visitor experience |
| Objective Division: | Commercial Services and Tourism |
| Objective Group: | Tourism services |
| Objective Field: | Socio-cultural issues in tourism |
| UTAS Author: | Vorobjovas-Pinta, O (Dr Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta) |
| ID Code: | 124230 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Deposited By: | TSBE |
| Deposited On: | 2018-02-14 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-02-15 |
| Downloads: | 1 View Download Statistics |
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