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Navigating Sexual Racism in the Sexual Field: Compensation for and Disavowal of Marginality by Racial Minority Grindr Users in Singapore
This study investigates racialized sexual desires of Grindr users in Singapore, a multiracial East Asian society. We found that users are continually pigeonholed into racial categories tethered to
stereotypes, hierarchizing users such that the…
stereotypes, hierarchizing users such that the…
The Influence of Interdependence in Networked Publics Spheres: How Community-Level Interactions Affect the Evolution of Topics in Online Discourse
Investigations of networked public spheres often examine the structures of online platforms by studying users’ interactions. These works suggest that users’ interactions can lead to cyberbalkanization when interlocutors form homophilous communities…
Linguistic Accommodation Enhances Compliance to Charity Donation: The Role of Interpersonal Communication Processes in Mediated Compliance-Gaining Conversations
We address the link between communication accommodation and compliance gaining in momentary, mediated encounters, using Goffman’s theory of interaction ritual as a conceptual bridge. We report an online experiment of compliance-gaining conversations…
The Role of Local Influential Users in Spread of Situational Crisis Information
Extensive spread of situational information is important for communities in response to crises/
disasters. Among various mechanisms affecting the spread of information on social media, influential users play a critical role in enhancing information…
disasters. Among various mechanisms affecting the spread of information on social media, influential users play a critical role in enhancing information…
Core Tech Support Networks and Digital Inequalities in American Disadvantaged Urban Communities
This study originates the construct of core tech support networks to understand the most fundamental digital inequality issues that remain in disadvantaged communities. Beyond social
inequalities, digital factors, and social capital, this study…
inequalities, digital factors, and social capital, this study…
Too Much or Too Little Messaging? Situational Determinants of Guilt About Mobile Messaging
Mobile messaging has been associated with guilt. Guilt about too much messaging may result from self-control failures during goal conflicts. Conversely, guilt about too little messaging may result from violating the salient norm to be available. This…
Provocation as Agentic Practice: Gender Performativity in Online Strategies of Transgender Sex Workers
Fluid performances of gender online by gender-diverse individuals facing discrimination and fetishization raises questions about whether these acts are a source of empowerment or reinforce prevailing prejudice. We combine virtual ethnography and…
Identity Collision: Older Gay Men Using Technology
This study examines identity work among older gay men in relation to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It draws on the notion of IT identity—the extent to which individuals experience technology as integral to their sense of selves—to…
Domesticating Gay Apps: An Intersectional Analysis of the Use of Blued Among Chinese Gay Men
Drawing on domestication theory and intersectionality theory, this study explores the multiple roles dating apps play in Chinese gay men’s lives amid changing personal and social circumstances. We present in-depth narratives of three Blued users from…
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years
The present research examines the longitudinal average impact of frequency of use of Internet and social networking sites (SNS) on subjective well-being of adolescents in Germany. Based on five-wave panel data that cover a period of nine years, we…