Yoel Roth

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Yoel Roth is a trust and safety practitioner and researcher. He is the Vice President of…

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  • No fats, no femmes, no privacy?

    Digital Media 2: Transformations in Human Communication (eds. Paul Messaris and Lee Humphreys)

    Racism, ageism, body shaming, and femmephobia are common tropes in user profiles on gay-targeted social networking sites. The blog Douchebags of Grindr is dedicated to the task of chronicling this perceived misbehavior, posting screenshots of offensive profiles for public view and ridicule. Do websites like Douchebags of Grindr breach the expected sociotechnical boundaries of gay social networking services, decontextualizing and resharing personal information without permission? Or do they…

    Racism, ageism, body shaming, and femmephobia are common tropes in user profiles on gay-targeted social networking sites. The blog Douchebags of Grindr is dedicated to the task of chronicling this perceived misbehavior, posting screenshots of offensive profiles for public view and ridicule. Do websites like Douchebags of Grindr breach the expected sociotechnical boundaries of gay social networking services, decontextualizing and resharing personal information without permission? Or do they serve a critical role in organically refining the boundaries of acceptable conduct within online gay communities? This chapter examines how personal data flows across networked platforms, suggesting that flows of personal information like Douchebags of Grindr play a critical part in allowing users to negotiate standards of behavior in networked environments. While I stress the social role played by these vernacular user practices, I offer specific sociotechnical solutions that may mitigate the reputational and privacy risks created by Douchebags of Grindr.

  • ‘No overly suggestive photos of any kind’: Content management and the policing of self in gay digital communities

    Communication Culture & Critique

    This article examines the policies and practices that manage user-submitted content on three gay-targeted social networking services. While managing user-generated content is a common practice across social networking services, the policies implemented on gay-targeted services tend to be distinctively restrictive in scope and highly specific in formulation. This analysis identifies the technical, legal, and social affordances that authorized the creation of these policies. Framing content…

    This article examines the policies and practices that manage user-submitted content on three gay-targeted social networking services. While managing user-generated content is a common practice across social networking services, the policies implemented on gay-targeted services tend to be distinctively restrictive in scope and highly specific in formulation. This analysis identifies the technical, legal, and social affordances that authorized the creation of these policies. Framing content management policies as derived from the technical rules of platforms like Apple’s App Store obscures normative judgments about proper self-presentation and community formation. Identifying the normative character of these policies requires an analysis rooted simultaneously in technology studies, media policy, and subcultural identity politics.

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  • Zero feet away: The digital geography of gay social media

    Journal of Homosexuality

  • Locating the "Scruff Guy": Theorizing Body and Space in Gay Geosocial Media

    International Journal of Communication

    This article offers a critical examination of the smartphone application Scruff, a gay geosocial networking service targeted primarily at bears that boasts a user base of over five million individuals in more than 180 countries. Using a case study of gay geosocial networking, the article argues for a theoretical reworking of the relationship between embodiment, space, and digital media. Geosocial services like Scruff, by virtue of their emphasis on bodies and locations that can be accessed…

    This article offers a critical examination of the smartphone application Scruff, a gay geosocial networking service targeted primarily at bears that boasts a user base of over five million individuals in more than 180 countries. Using a case study of gay geosocial networking, the article argues for a theoretical reworking of the relationship between embodiment, space, and digital media. Geosocial services like Scruff, by virtue of their emphasis on bodies and locations that can be accessed offline, complicate notions that online interactions are displaced, disembodied, and ethereal. By layering a virtual, but still spatialized, network of users atop existing physical locations, Scruff straddles the online-offline divide and indicates how bodies, places, and identities are discursively constructed through the interplay of virtual and physical experience.

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