Software applications (apps) are now prevalent in the digital media environment. They are
the site of significant sociocultural and economic transformations across many domains …

This article situates online hook-up devices as an emergent infrastructure of the sexual
encounter that has become popular among homosexually attracted men in urban centres. A …

The ethical and social implications of data mining, algorithmic curation and automation in
the context of social media have been of heightened concern for a range of researchers with …

One pervasive use of the Grindr mobile application is the initiation and accomplishment of
pseudonymous sexual encounters between gay strangers based on location awareness …

Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, the behaviour of men who have sex with men has been
subject to intense scrutiny on the part of the behavioural and sociomedical sciences. What …

This article investigates the relationship between social media platforms and the production
and dissemination of selfies in light of its implications for the visibility of lesbian, gay …

Ben Light puts forward an alternative way of thinking about how we engage with social
networking sites. He analyses our engagements social networking sites in public, at work, in …

This paper considers how certain functions of online hook-up devices are participating in the
emergence of new forms of sexual relation, new distributions of intimacy and new sexual …

How and why do societal, organizational and individual factors affecting gender equity in the
IT field change over time? To answer this question a longitudinal investigation of the nature …

In response to claims emanating from recent assessments of the status of gender and IS
research about insufficient theorizing of gender, a critical literature analysis of research …