There’s an App for that: The Uses and Gratifications of Online Social Networks for Gay Men

By David Gudelunas. Sexuality & Culture, 2012

268 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Gay Men’s Construction and Management of Identity on Grindr (2017, methodology): “identified as one of the purposes of using Grindr (Gudelunas 2012).”
• Dressing up Tinderella: interrogating authenticity claims on the mobile dating app Tinder (2016, unknown): “…sex with men, using Bluetooth technology as early as 2005 to cruise on public transport (Mowlabocus, 2010) and contributing to the overwhelming success of dating apps, with an estimated 1.5 million using Grindr every day (Grindr Team, 2014) and many using other niche dating apps (Gudelunas, 2012).”
• Seeing and being seen: Co-situation and impression formation using Grindr, a location-aware gay dating app (2015, background): “…meet others online and for real-world relations (Campbell, 2004; Mowlabocus, 2010; Shaw, 1997), in addition to work by Gray (2009) exploring rural LGBTQ youth’s use of technology to connect with others and Gudelunas’ (2005, 2012) empirical evidence of how MSM meet for various types of encounters.”
• "My Voice Is Definitely Strongest in Online Communities": Students Using Social Media for Queer and Disability Identity-Making (2017, background): “A subset of this research has explored young gay and bisexual men’s online activities (Gudelunas, 2012; Harper et al., 2009).”
• Love me Tinder: Untangling emerging adults' motivations for using the dating application Tinder (2017, unknown): “Similarly, differences exist in relationships between different motivations to use online media and offline outcomes, such as arranging offline meetings with an online partner or engaging in casual sex adventures with online partners (Gudelunas, 2012).”