FASS Brown Bag Seminar by Dr Michelle Ho | Digital Intimacies of Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men (GBQ) in Singapore
Dear all,
You are cordially invited to the final session of the FASS Brown Bag Seminar Series in Semester 2 of AY24/25. Dr Michelle Ho (NUS Communications and New Media) will be presenting on “Digital Intimacies of Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men (GBQ) in Singapore”.
Date: 11 Apr, 12pm – 1pm
Register: Zoom
Digital Intimacies of Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men (GBQ) in Singapore
This presentation explores the digital intimacies of gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men in Singapore through their use of dating applications. Digital intimacies index the material and/or emotional connections people have with one another embedded within media and technologies. Drawing on preliminary data from interviews with GBQ men, we address the questions: What shapes the digital intimacies of GBQ men in Singapore? How do digital technologies reconfigure their identity formation, interpersonal bonds, and sexual health practices? Our study is timely for contributing to scholarship at the intersections of communication and media studies and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) studies.
Michelle H. S. Ho is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media and a member of the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster steering committee at NUS. She is the Principal Investigator of “Queer Men in Singapore,” a project exploring gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men’s digital intimacies.
Wi En Ng is a Master’s candidate in Communication and New Media at NUS, and a full-time research assistant for the Queer Men in Singapore project. Her research focuses on how cultural norms and social structures intersect with everyday technologies to shape communication and engagement in digital and physical spaces.
Philippa Self is a research assistant at the Department of Communications and New Media at the NUS. She holds a BA (Hons.) in Urban Studies from Yale-NUS College. Her research interests consider the affective and embodied experiences of sexuality, gender, and body size in urban contexts.