CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Nikolic, Dragan Dragoslav |
|---|---|
| Title | A click of a mouse away The Internet as a hallmark of queer existence in Serbia |
| Summary | This paper is a small – scale empirical research whose main aim is to specify, in the context of contemporary Serbian society, the role the Internet plays and the needs that it facilitates for its homosexual users. Opposed to the ideas of favorable and affirmative influence of internet usage on social interaction, this paper tends to presents accounts on utilization of this channel of communication strictly as a tool for securing sexual gratification and maintaining users’ spoiled identities. Drawing from the set of Erving Goffman’s notions on identity management, the research seeks to address the fluidity of on-line queer identities. Being methodologically conceptualized in twofold manner as a mixture of survey and interviews, it generated few findings. The internet in the present day Serbia is the means to be employed in order to get in contact with other LGBT people. Moreover, it is highly utilized, especially through gay chats and personal ads, for approximating potential sexual engagements among homosexuals. |
| Supervisor | Kowalski, Alexandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/nikolic_dragan.pdf |
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