TY - GEN
T1 - Let's talk about sex (apps), CSCW
AU - Birnholtz, Jeremy
AU - Shklovski, Irina
AU - Handel, Mark
AU - Toch, Eran
PY - 2015/2/28
Y1 - 2015/2/28
N2 - Location-based social network apps for dating have grown significantly over the past few years. Although they have many possible uses, casual and sexual encounters remain an important part of their draw. For CSCW, these apps are interesting to study: they offer a context to explore issues of identity and self-presentation, geography and locality, privacy and security, as well as motivation and usage habits. In this one-day workshop, we invite researchers, students, and practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds, including CSCW, computer science, sociology, and public health, to discuss these issues and more, as well as to explore the difficulties and challenges inherent in this research. In addition to exploring the issues around apps for sex and dating, participants will also help to bring some of these sensitive, yet important topics into the mainstream of CSCW research.
AB - Location-based social network apps for dating have grown significantly over the past few years. Although they have many possible uses, casual and sexual encounters remain an important part of their draw. For CSCW, these apps are interesting to study: they offer a context to explore issues of identity and self-presentation, geography and locality, privacy and security, as well as motivation and usage habits. In this one-day workshop, we invite researchers, students, and practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds, including CSCW, computer science, sociology, and public health, to discuss these issues and more, as well as to explore the difficulties and challenges inherent in this research. In addition to exploring the issues around apps for sex and dating, participants will also help to bring some of these sensitive, yet important topics into the mainstream of CSCW research.
KW - Grindr
KW - Location-based social networks
KW - People near-by applications
KW - Tinder
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U2 - 10.1145/2685553.2685557
DO - 10.1145/2685553.2685557
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84939179958
SN - 9781450329460
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 283
EP - 288
BT - CSCW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 Companion
Y2 - 14 March 2015 through 18 March 2015
ER -
