One of the difficulties of ethnography is making sense of these disagreements. Mark Nott, and many of the participants in my study, like Frank, Ginger, and others, have found friends in the community of Grindr. I’ve seen people meet in Boystown clubs after using their phones to find sexually interested people in their immediate vicinity. Insecure ’Mo disagrees. In qualitative methodology, we call this a “disconfirming case,” a situation in which something is wrong with the emerging theory.
