Seeing and being seen: Co-situation and impression formation using Grindr, a location-aware gay dating app

By Courtney K. Blackwell, Charlie Abbott. New Media & Society, 2015

423 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Tim Highfield
2. Tama Leaver
3. Rachel Grieve
4. Jessica Z. Marrington
5. Stefanie Duguay
6. Evita March
7. R. Jaspal
8. P. Jonason

In Marketing

1. Stefanie Duguay
2. R. Jaspal
3. P. Jonason

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Kath Albury
2. P. Byron
3. Ben Light
4. Tim Highfield
5. Tama Leaver
6. Rachel Grieve
7. Stefanie Duguay
8. Evita March

Citations in the corpus

• Trolling on Tinder® (and other dating apps): Examining the role of the Dark Tetrad and impulsivity (2017, background): “…considerably from traditional online dating sites, which commonly implicitly or explicitly h), Rachel.grieve@utas.edu.au ), encourage (often through advertising and sometimes through the effort required to create a profile) longer term courtship and online communication (Blackwell et al., 2014).”
• The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps (2018, background): “Grid sorting within hookup apps for men seeking men can create a co-presence among users that increases their sense of belonging even when physically situated in heteronormative public spaces (Blackwell, Birnholtz, and Abbott, 2015).”
• Safe on My Phone? Same-Sex Attracted Young People’s Negotiations of Intimacy, Visibility, and Risk on Digital Hook-Up Apps (2016, background): “For some of our participants, the use of an app facilitated participation in “gay space,” even when the app-user occupied an ostensibly heterosexual physical environment (Blackwell et al., 2015, p. 1127).”
• Gay Men’s Construction and Management of Identity on Grindr (2017, background): “In an important study of Grindr users, Blackwell and Birnholtz (2015) note that the Grindr enables people to connect with one another in ways that transcend geographic boundaries, itself ‘‘often blurring the boundaries around physical places and communities defined by shared interests in particular ”
• Instagrammatics and digital methods: studying visual social media, from selfies and GIFs to memes and emoji (2016, background): “…the key means for presenting and fashioning online identities, through pro fi le pictures, everyday snapshots, created and curated media, and underpins a range of social media tools such as hook-up and dating apps, including Tinder and Grindr (Blackwell, Birnholtz, & Abbott, 2014; Miller, 2015).”
• The Third Wave?: Inclusive Privacy and Security (2017, neutral): “The use of assistive technology (e.g., a portable magnifier) Population Disability disability in general [11], visual [6, 7, 9, 102], cognitive [26, 60, 81], motor [48, 66] Non-western/developing countries Middle East [2–4, 31 India [49, 51, 64, 95], China [95] Other under-served populations older a”