Departing glances: A sociotechnical account of 'leaving' Grindr

被引：107

作者：

Brubaker, Jed R. ^{[1
]}

Ananny, Mike ^{[2
,3
]}

Crawford, Kate ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Informat Sch Informat & Comp Sci, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[2] Univ So Calif, Annenberg Sch Commun & Journalism, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA

[3] Univ So Calif, Sci Technol & Soc Cluster, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA

[4] Microsoft Res, Washington, DC USA

来源：

NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY | 2016年 / 18卷 / 03期

关键词：

departure; Grindr; leaving; location-based social media; non-use; quitting; sociotechnical; technology refusal;

D O I：

10.1177/1461444814542311

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Grindr is a popular location-based social networking application for smartphones, predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr. Drawing on interviews with 16 men who stopped using Grindr, this article reports on the varied definitions of leaving, focusing on what people report leaving, how they leave and what they say leaving means to them. We argue that leaving is not a singular moment, but a process involving layered social and technical acts - that understandings of and departures from location-based media are bound up with an individual's location. Accounts of leaving Grindr destabilize normative definitions of both Grindr' and leaving', exposing a set of relational possibilities and spatial arrangements within and around which people move. We conclude with implications for the study of non-use and technological departure.

引用

页码：373 / 390

页数：18

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