ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to connect new media and critical intercultural communication (CIC) research by focusing on the intercultural and transnational communication that takes place on social network sites, social media, and quick media applications. It focuses on how transnational queer individuals use these sites to communicate, create a community, look for romance, and find sexual partners for hookups. Tinder as a geolocation-based social network hookup application is also known for the swiping motion that members use to like or dislike available profiles. Transnational geolocation-based queer quick media applications provide limitless opportunities for intercultural communication. Digital cruising also has economic implications for social media platform developers, allowing for the commodification of queer culture and providing opportunities to profit from queers’ lives and their performances. Geolocation-based queer quick media and social network applications are indeed transnational, connecting millions of gay men and queer people around the world.
