Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Health Sociol Rev. 2020 Nov;29(3):249-263. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2020.1779106. Epub 2020 Jun 30.
Hook-up apps are an increasingly popular way for women to meet other people for sex, dating, relationships, and more. As a mundane and habitual form of media, the multiple uses of hook-up apps allow for the production of intimacy in surprising and complex ways. This paper draws on narrative interviews with 15 self-identifying women to explore how dating and hook-up apps help produce 'intimate publics' for women. The field of intimate publics available to women users of hook-up apps is broader than those afforded by in-app interactions; there is an entire network of intimacy, sociality, and publicity that forms around hook-up apps. Our findings show that while both queer and straight women use hook-up apps to find sex, hook-ups, dates, and relationships, they are also central to building community, friendship, and sociality between women.
交友应用程序是女性越来越受欢迎的结识他人进行性接触、约会、建立关系等的方式。作为一种日常和习惯性的媒体形式，交友应用程序的多种用途以令人惊讶和复杂的方式产生了亲密关系。本文通过对 15 名自我认同的女性的叙事采访，探讨了约会和交友应用程序如何帮助女性创建“亲密公众”。对于交友应用程序的女性用户来说，可用的亲密公众领域比应用程序内互动提供的更广泛；围绕着交友应用程序形成了一个完整的亲密关系、社交性和宣传网络。我们的研究结果表明，虽然男女同性恋和异性恋女性都使用交友应用程序寻找性接触、约会和性关系，但它们也是建立女性之间社区、友谊和社交性的核心。
