Surprising Uses of Dating Apps in Times of Emergency: Lessons Learned from the Covid Sex Lives Project

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• Rachel Katz, Digital Media Sociology
• Tuesday 14 November 2023, 18:30-19:30
• Richard King room, Darwin College.

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Abstract: Dating apps serve a multifaceted role in contemporary society, including the circulation of public health information from organisations and governments. Join us as we delve into the experiences of the group ‘men who have sex with men’ (MSM) and their use of dating apps during the COVID -19 pandemic. We will provide evidence on users’ responses to health messaging on dating apps, drawing on findings from the UKRI /AHRC funded COVID Sex Lives Project, a large-scale, multi-institutional study. We will discuss the challenges of dating apps as sites of public health messaging, explore the efficacy of Covid-safe sexual health narratives, and analyse the alternate social and sexual cultures that emulate those made inaccessible by the pandemic. We will conclude with reflections about what this means for public discourses at large.

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars series.

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