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Queering App-Propriate Behaviours: The Affective Politics of Gay Social-Sexual Applications in Toronto, Canada.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Queering App-Propriate Behaviours: The Affective Politics of Gay Social-Sexual Applications in Toronto, Canada./
Author:	Davies, Adam W.J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	312 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-09, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-09B.
Subject:	Sexuality. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28261042
ISBN:	9798597067292

Queering App-Propriate Behaviours: The Affective Politics of Gay Social-Sexual Applications in Toronto, Canada.
Davies, Adam W.J.

Queering App-Propriate Behaviours: The Affective Politics of Gay Social-Sexual Applications in Toronto, Canada. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 312 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-09, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In conversation with affect theory, queer theory, and relevant social scientific literature, this thesis investigates the affective and feeling politics of gay socio-sexual applications (GSSAs). Specifically, this thesis investigates how GBQ men's understandings of emotional connections-a term used in GSSAs, such as Grindr, to advertise the potentialities of such applications-are involved in the socio-sexual politics and constitution of normative gay men's sexual subjectivities online and how online outreach workers and social service workers are implicated in and involved with such politics. Applying a feminist poststructural affect theory lens, this thesis uses Jackson and Mazzei's (2011) process of "plugging-in" with different poststructural theories, such as Michel Foucault's (1991) governmentality, Julia Kristeva's (1982) abjection, and Sara Ahmed's (2004a, 2004b, 2010a, 2010b) affective economies and promises of happiness to analyze what I term "fractions" of data. In the first data chapter, I apply Foucault's theorization of governmentality to argue that subjects learn to navigate GSSAs through discourses of emotional regulation and restraint, while analyzing the politics of "emotional risk." In the second data chapter, I apply Kristeva's (1982) theorization of abjection to argue that the abjection of others and the abjection of the "self" take place within GSSAs through the rejection of emotional dependency upon others, romantic love, as well as the aspiration for neoliberal norms of individuality. In my third data chapter, I apply Sara Ahmed's (2004a, 2004b, 2010a, 2010b) work on the promises of happiness and affective economies to argue that GSSAs promote certain affective economies of confidence and self-assuredness whereby subjects are encouraged to perform neoliberal subjectivities through promises of self-pleasure. In particular, I note how GSSAs, such as Grindr, hold differing "promises" for individuals that keep subjects bound to them and using them, even if they might seek to disconnect from such applications. Within each data chapter, I write a Deleuzian "intermezzo" section in reflection on my experiences in what I term "thinking/feeling/writing" within the affective assemblages of my research project. I close with a very un-final not-conclusion that articulates some further thoughts for online outreach as well as my own becomings within my research.

ISBN: 9798597067292Subjects--Topical Terms:

816197
Sexuality.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Affect theory

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