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Please join us for this DMRC visiting scholar event!
August 24, 2.00 – 3.00 pm,
Z2-305
QUT Kelvin Grove
In this presentation, Griffin offers two ways of understanding mobile apps designed to help sexual minorities make interpersonal connections. The first framework highlights feeling, emotion, and affect as they are made manifest in the architectures of information that organize the apps. The second highlights how these phenomena are made material in the experiences of users. Using an archive comprised of app design, promotional discourses, as well as user-generated content, Griffin builds on scholarship related to technology and the body in order to parse out the mix of pleasure, pain, and amusement users experience when pursuing desire online.
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Hollis Griffin is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Denison University. He is the author of Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age (Indiana UP, 2017), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 by Choice, the publication of the American Library Association. Hollis is Associate Editor for the journal Communication, Culture, and Critique and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. |