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Shangwei Wu, Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Woudestein, Van der Goot building, M8-16, P.O. Box 1738, Rotterdam, NL-3000 DR, the Netherlands. E-mail: email protected
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Cellphone dating applications perform a prominent role in Chinese gay men’s social life. According to in-depth interviews with 21 participants, this research explores exactly how metropolitan singles that are gay Asia develop social relationships on dating apps. It reveals that relationship development can be driven by casual conversations, that aren’t inspired by clear pragmatic purposes. Casual conversations have a tendency to unfold around typical hobbies or experiences, serving being a way to obtain sociability, or satisfaction in socializing itself. In comparison to casual conversations, two types of conversations are deemed very instrumental and undesirable: a person is the sex-oriented conversation targeted at instant intimate encounters; one other could be the interrogative discussion by which people ask personal concerns in a nonreciprocal and way that is rigid. Besides wanting sociability, users “relationalize” casual intercourse by seeing it as a type of social connection and endowing it aided by the possible to foster a relationship. Continue reading Shopping for “interesting people”: Chinese men’s that are gay of relationship development on dating apps