"There are literally no rules when it comes to these things": ethical practice and the use of dating/hook-up apps

Byron, P; Albury, K

"There are literally no rules when it comes to these things": ethical practice and the use of dating/hook-up apps

Byron, P

Albury, K

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Publisher:: Palgrave
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media, 2018, pp. 213-229
Issue Date:: 2018-11-01

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dc.contributor.author	Byron, P https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6591-3060
dc.contributor.author	Albury, K
dc.contributor.editor	Dobson, AS
dc.contributor.editor	Robards, B
dc.contributor.editor	Carah, N
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-18T22:43:27Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-18T22:43:27Z
dc.date.issued	2018-11-01
dc.identifier.citation	Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media, 2018, pp. 213-229
dc.identifier.isbn	9783319976068
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/164461
dc.description.abstract	This chapter considers same-sex attracted young people’s experiences of using dating/hook-up apps. Study participants suggest that these are unregulated spaces that require users to develop their own rules and codes of conduct. They discussed a range of personal rules that have evolved through their use of dating and hook-up apps, and user etiquette/conduct is discussed in relation to other users, with many accounts of improper conduct that is experienced and expected in these media. Dating/hook-up apps afford much surveillance and discipline (of self and others), through which codes of conduct are continually produced, challenged and revised through navigations of these ‘unregulated’ spaces. Drawing upon Foucault’s discussion of moral codes and ethical subjectivity, this chapter considers how negotiating intimacy within these apps constitutes ethical self-practice.
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dc.language	en
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dc.title	"There are literally no rules when it comes to these things": ethical practice and the use of dating/hook-up apps
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Abstract:

This chapter considers same-sex attracted young people’s experiences of using dating/hook-up apps. Study participants suggest that these are unregulated spaces that require users to develop their own rules and codes of conduct. They discussed a range of personal rules that have evolved through their use of dating and hook-up apps, and user etiquette/conduct is discussed in relation to other users, with many accounts of improper conduct that is experienced and expected in these media. Dating/hook-up apps afford much surveillance and discipline (of self and others), through which codes of conduct are continually produced, challenged and revised through navigations of these ‘unregulated’ spaces. Drawing upon Foucault’s discussion of moral codes and ethical subjectivity, this chapter considers how negotiating intimacy within these apps constitutes ethical self-practice.

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