Flirting and Friendship at the Periphery of Hook-up App Research

Byron, P; Møller, K

Flirting and Friendship at the Periphery of Hook-up App Research

Byron, P

Møller, K

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Publisher:: Foreningen Lambda Nordica
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: lambda nordica, 2021, 26, (1), pp. 23-52
Issue Date:: 2021-07-05

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dc.contributor.author	Byron, P https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6591-3060
dc.contributor.author	Møller, K
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-23T23:35:38Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-23T23:35:38Z
dc.date.issued	2021-07-05
dc.identifier.citation	lambda nordica, 2021, 26, (1), pp. 23-52
dc.identifier.issn	1100-2573
dc.identifier.issn	2001-7286
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/153465
dc.description.abstract	<jats:p> The everyday intimacies of friendship and flirting are not typically exploredin hook-up app research, nor is there much reflection on the intimacies of researching these media. This paper considers flirting and friendship as practices and methods that broaden the scope of current hook-up app research. We ask what these intimacies can produce to expand research approaches (and thus knowledge) of hook-up apps. As users and researchers of these apps, we consider negotiations of flirting and friendship between researchers and research partici- pants by exploring what it means to research with intimacy. Attention is given to the connections, conversations, and intimate encounters within hook-up research that are mostly absent from existing presentations of research findings. We sug- gest that greater attention to peripheral and intimate communication between researchers and participants can offer valuable methods for queering otherwise stabilised ways of knowing, using, and researching these platforms. Adding to the queer ethnographic tradition, we demonstrate how a processual and affective approach to hook-up app use encourages researchers to make visible our connec- tions to the media we research, and how these connections relate to the intima- cies that hook-up apps foster. </jats:p>
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Foreningen Lambda Nordica
dc.relation.ispartof	lambda nordica
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.34041/ln.v26.720
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	Flirting and Friendship at the Periphery of Hook-up App Research
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	26
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2022-01-23T23:35:33Z
pubs.issue	1
pubs.publication-status	Published online
pubs.volume	26
utslib.citation.issue	1

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The everyday intimacies of friendship and flirting are not typically exploredin hook-up app research, nor is there much reflection on the intimacies of researching these media. This paper considers flirting and friendship as practices and methods that broaden the scope of current hook-up app research. We ask what these intimacies can produce to expand research approaches (and thus knowledge) of hook-up apps. As users and researchers of these apps, we consider negotiations of flirting and friendship between researchers and research partici- pants by exploring what it means to research with intimacy. Attention is given to the connections, conversations, and intimate encounters within hook-up research that are mostly absent from existing presentations of research findings. We sug- gest that greater attention to peripheral and intimate communication between researchers and participants can offer valuable methods for queering otherwise stabilised ways of knowing, using, and researching these platforms. Adding to the queer ethnographic tradition, we demonstrate how a processual and affective approach to hook-up app use encourages researchers to make visible our connec- tions to the media we research, and how these connections relate to the intima- cies that hook-up apps foster.

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