Digital Intimacies - Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis

Explores how queer men use their smartphones to feel in control of their intimate lives in a times of crisis

About the author

Jamie Hakim is Lecturer in culture, media and creative industries, King's College, London, UK. His research interests lie at the intersection of digital culture, intimacy, embodiment and care. His previous book Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture was published in 2019.

Ingrid Young is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is a medical sociologist who is particularly interested in how experiences of and inequalities across gender, sexualities, race and technologies shape sexual health and wellbeing.

James Cummings is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. He uses ethnographic and interview methods to explore relationships between gender, sexuality, being and living and how these play out in everyday social and material settings, as well as over life courses. James is the author of The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time (2022).

Product details

• Authors: James Cummings, Jamie Hakim, Ingrid Young, James Cummings, Jamie Hakim, Ingrid Young
• Assisted by: Kath Albury (Editor), Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (Editor), Jamie Hakim (Editor), Jamie Hakim (Editor), John Mercer (Editor), Kath Albury (Editor), John Mercer (Editor), Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781350381780
• ISBN: 978-1-350-38178-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Gay & Lesbian studies, Of specific Gay interest, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, LGBTQ; apps; dating; social media