Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology and Embodiment in the Digital Age

by Sharif Mowlabocus

Popular culture has recognized urban gay men's use of the Web over the last ten years, with gay Internet dating and Net-cruising featuring as narrative devices in hit television shows. Yet to date, the relationship between urban gay male culture and digital media technologies has received only limited critical attention. Gaydar Culture explores the integration of specific techno-cultural practices within contemporary gay male sub-culture. Taking British gay culture as its primary interest, the book locates its critical discussion within the wider global context of a proliferating model of Western 'metropolitan' gay male culture. Making use of a series of case studies in the development of a theoretical framework through which past, present and future practices of digital immersion can be understood and critiqued; this book constitutes a timely intervention into the fields of digital media studies, cultural studies and the study of gender and sexuality.

252 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Raymond Bucko · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is definitely dated although it provides a useful look at the past. The book is interesting it should be still read. I will caution you however that it is filled with jargonand model making the work of interest primarily to academics. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. At times the book over analyzes and represents the tendency of the academy to over analyze situations. Although bound by time and space, primarily England and the late 20th century, the book resonates with messages for today.