Scripts and Sexual Markets of Transgender People on Online Dating Apps: A Netnographic Study

Q3 Social Sciences

Italian Sociological Review Pub Date : 2021-04-22 DOI:10.13136/ISR.V11I4S.437

Giuseppe Masullo, Maria Coppola

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Abstract

In recent years, the LGBT community has seen an exponential increase in the use of specific online dating apps ( e.g. Grindr and Wapa), designed to encourage meetings and affective or sexual exchanges, that have partially disrupted the traditional way of approaching studies on non-regulatory sexuality. Indeed, they changed the very meaning that some terms assumed in the past, such as “LGBT community” or “Rainbow Community” (Masullo, Gianola, 2017; Masullo, Coppola, 2020; Bacio, Peruzzi, 2017). This study aims to answer some research questions: how transgender people use the meeting apps ( e.g. Grindr, Wapa, Badoo); which dating apps are most used by T people and how these new “communicative and intersubjective spaces” influence, orient and determine the defining processes related to gender expressivity and sexual script construction; to what extent these channels constitute spaces to meet emotional and sexual needs; and whether these spaces reflect the same discriminatory dynamics that T people experience in offline reality. This research has shed light on how the ambivalence of dating apps for T people. On the one hand, they are places of emancipation; on the other, they perpetuate the exclusion mechanisms experienced offline. The choice of a platform is crucial from an identity point of view and it roughly reflects the perceived stage of the user’s transition process. The app is regarded as a place to find confirmation and recognition of their newly acquired identity.

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网络交友应用程序上跨性别者的脚本和性市场：一项网络研究

近年来，LGBT社区使用特定在线约会应用程序（如Grindr和Wapa）的人数呈指数级增长，这些应用程序旨在鼓励会面、情感或性交流，这在一定程度上打破了研究非监管性行为的传统方式。事实上，他们改变了过去一些术语的含义，例如“LGBT社区”或“彩虹社区”（Masullo，Gianola，2017；Masullo、Coppola，2020；Bacio、Peruzzi，2017）。本研究旨在回答一些研究问题：跨性别者如何使用会议应用程序（如Grindr、Wapa、Badoo）；哪些约会应用程序最受T人群使用，以及这些新的“交流和主体间空间”如何影响、定位和决定与性别表达和性脚本构建相关的定义过程；这些渠道在多大程度上构成了满足情感和性需求的空间；以及这些空间是否反映了T人在离线现实中所经历的歧视性动态。这项研究揭示了T族约会应用程序的矛盾心理。一方面，它们是解放的场所；另一方面，它们延续了离线时所经历的排斥机制。从身份的角度来看，平台的选择至关重要，它大致反映了用户过渡过程的感知阶段。该应用程序被视为一个可以确认和识别他们新获得的身份的地方。

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Italian Sociological Review Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

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1.50

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8 weeks

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