The Geographies of Digital Sexuality

Description

This edited book engages with the rapidly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, that is, the interlinkages between sexual lives, material and virtual geographies and digital practices. Modern life is increasingly characterised by our integrated engagement in digital/material landscapes activities and our intimate life online can no longer be conceptualised as discrete from ‘real life.’ Our digital lives are experienced as a material embeddedness in the spaces of everyday life marking the complex integration of real and digital geographies. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in the ways that our social and sexual practices such as dating or casual sex are bound up online and online geographies and in many cases constitute specific sexuality-based communities crossing the digital/material divide. The aim of this collection is to explore the complexities of these newly constituted and interwoven sexual and gender landscapes through empirical, theoretical and conceptual engagements through wide-ranging, innovative and original research in a new and quickly moving field. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Catherine J. Nash, Andrew Gorman-Murray)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 The Queer Times of Internet Infrastructure and Digital Systems (Daniel Cockayne, Lizzie Richardson)....Pages 11-27 Queer Mobilities and New Spatial Media (Catherine J. Nash, Andrew Gorman-Murray)....Pages 29-48 Travel, Tinder and Gender in Digitally Mediated Tourism Encounters (Donna James, Jenna Condie, Garth Lean)....Pages 49-68 ‘I get my lovin’ on the run’: Digital Nomads, Constant Travel, and Nurturing Romantic Relationships (Beverly Yuen Thompson)....Pages 69-90 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 “There’s no one new around you”: Queer Women’s Experiences of Scarcity in Geospatial Partner-Seeking on Tinder (Stefanie Duguay)....Pages 93-114 Going the Distance: Locative Dating Technology and Queer Male Practice-Based Identities (Sam Miles)....Pages 115-135 Online Dating Practice as a Perfect Example of Interwoven Worlds? Analysis of Communication in Digital and Physical Encounters (Emiel Maliepaard, Jantine van Lisdonk)....Pages 137-157 ‘I didn’t think you were going to sound like that’: Sensory Geographies of Grindr Encounters in Public Spaces in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (Carl Bonner-Thompson)....Pages 159-179 Front Matter ....Pages 181-181 Disrupting Sexism and Sexualities Online? Gender, Activism and Digital Spaces (Jessica McLean, Sophia Maalsen)....Pages 183-202 “I want my story to be heard…”: Examining the Production of Digital Stories by Queer Youth in East and South-East Asia (Benjamin Hanckel)....Pages 203-223 ‘Does Your Mother Know? Digital Versus Material Spaces of Queer Encounter in Singapore’ (Jason Luger)....Pages 225-245 Queerying Public Art in Digitally Networked Space: The Rise and Fall of an Inflatable Butt Plug (Martin Zebracki)....Pages 247-271 Back Matter ....Pages 273-286