A new study has revealed that many teenager boys who are gay or bisexual use hookup apps including Grindr and Scruff to make connections with their surrounding LGBTI community and meet other queer people. The study is one of the first to look into teenagers use of mobile dating apps and is published in the Journal […]
Tags: anal sex, Apps, condoms, Gringr, Health, HIV, LGBTI, mobile, phone, Scruff, sexual health, teenager, youth
21 May 2018 /
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The Equality campaign has upset some Australians, from both sides of the marriage debate, by sending out an SMS encouraging people to select Yes in the postal survey. The text message notes that the government’s marriage survey forms have now arrived and encourages people to tick the ‘Yes’ box on the forms. It also contains […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, Australian Marriage Equality, Clint McGilvray, Marriage, marriage equality, phone, poll, SMS
23 Sep 2017 |
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Are we so busy looking at our mobile phone screens and glued to the latest developments on social media that we’ve lost all perspective on what’s right in front of us? Sitting at Kylie Minogue’s recent Perth concert the woman next to me is carefully recording the whole show on her mobile phone. She mumbles […]
Tags: drag, iPhone, phone, screen, screen culture, Smartphone
12 Aug 2015 |
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Tonight is the Australian debut of an intriguing production from the minds of performance poet Hannah Jane Walker and theatre maker Chris Thorpe. ‘I Wish I Was Lonely’ is a performance all about communication or lack thereof in the era of the smartphone. The audience are asked to do the opposite of what’s usually […]
Tags: Chris Thorpe, Hannah Jane Walker, I Wish I Was Lonely, Perth International Arts Festival, phone, PIAF, smart phone, Technology, Theatre
20 Feb 2015 |
Filed under Culture |
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