Data and 'social/sexual' encounters in the city: mappings of potential embodied experiences through geolocative dating apps

Phevos Kallitsis

Data and 'social/sexual' encounters in the city: mappings of potential embodied experiences through geolocative dating apps

Phevos Kallitsis

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Abstract

Taking Portsmouth, UK, as a case study, the chapter aims to contribute to the wider discourse about mapping sexuality, by overlaying mappings the city’s more conventionally advertised and experienced gay activity and the representation of data provided by the dating/hook-up app, Grindr. The analysis is based on maps created based on data retrieved from the public interface of the app. These are analysed in relation to the themes of (a) the users’ movement – as it happens in the physical city and as presented through the app, (b) the difference between geographical proximity and accessibility between locations, and (c) the space of the ‘closet’ as represented or experienced in the ‘public space’ of the app’s interface.

To achieve this, the chapter makes comparisons between the data of the app and the ‘traditional’ mappings of LGBT socialisation (bars, saunas, cruising areas), examining the ways that smart phones act as a bridge between the data and the embodied encounters

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Data, Architecture and the Experience of Place
Editors	Anastasia Karandinou
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	11
Pages	175-91
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-351-13932-8
ISBN (Print)	978-0-8153-5248-8, 978-0-8153-5246-4
Publication status	Published - Nov 2018

Keywords

geo-locative apps
Grindr
sexualities
urban space

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https://www.routledge.com/Data-Architecture-and-the-Experience-of-Place-1st-Edition/Karandinou/p/book/9780815352488

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Kallitsis, P., 26 Sept 2019, p. 87. 1 p.
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Sexualities and public space in Greece: a celluloid quest
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Data and 'social/sexual' encounters in the city: mappings of potential embodied experiences through geolocative dating apps

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Queer in public/ death in public: the posthumous celebrity of Zak Kostopoulos

The Greek queer home on celluloid: representations of the residential as the public/private boundary

Sexualities and public space in Greece: a celluloid quest

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