Abstract

MONTECIO, Gabriela Alencar  and  ROSA, Marcelo Victor da. “Here respect reigns, but ...”: the pedagogical dimensions of the Grindr application in Campo Grande, MS. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.61, pp.141-164.  Epub Feb 16, 2023. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serieestudos.v27i61.1704.

The study aims to analyze the discourses produced by users of the Grindr application, used mainly by men in search of relationships, especially sexual relations, with men. The survey was conducted from September 2021 to July 2022 in Campo Grande, MS. Thus, based on the ample pedagogical processes coming from the discourses circulating on Grindr, we see it as being an artifact abundant in content. The intention, through knowledge, was to be in the app to understand what is learned, taught, discovered, and transformed by understanding the dynamics that mediate the discursivities on Grindr as strategies that are disseminated through discourses. To this end, we created a free account to obtain prints, and from these, it was possible to observe three pedagogical dimensions present in the discursivities. Of these, the first mentions the dynamics of cancellation, which permeates all dimensions; the second reveals the hegemonic masculinity marked by discretion, secrecy, and by the man with a man’s way of being that converges to the norm. Finally, the third dimension reaches the ruptures present in the counter-hegemonic discursivities, dissidents to the norm.

Keywords : sexuality; Grindr; cultural pedagogy.

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