Departing glances: A sociotechnical account of ‘leaving’ Grindr

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 373-390

  Brubaker, Jed R ^a   Ananny, Mike ^b   Crawford, Kate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

departure; Grindr; leaving; location based social media; non use; quitting; sociotechnical; technology refusal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959290661     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444814542311     Document Type: Article

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