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From scene to screen: the challenges and opportunities that digital platforms pose for HIV prevention work with MSM

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posted on 2023-06-12, 08:30 authored by Sharif Mowlabocus, Craig Haslop, Rohit Dasgupta
This article draws upon data from Reaching Out Online, a collaborative research project that explored the need for, and development of, a digital health outreach service for gay, bisexual and MSM men in London and Brighton, UK. It identifies the challenges that commercial hook-up apps and other digitally-based dating and sex services pose for conventional forms of gay men’s health promotion. It then moves to explore the opportunities that these same services offer for health promotion teams. Chiefly, the discussion highlights the potential that commercial platforms offer to peer educators in terms of reaching local cohorts of men, together with the constraints placed upon this form of outreach as a result of the commercial imperatives that underpin these digital services.

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Reaching out online: Digital literacy and the uses of Social Media in Health Promotion; G1130; UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS; RE4500735196

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Social Media + Society

ISSN

2056-3051

Publisher

Sage

Issue

4

Volume

2

Page range

1-8

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  • Media and Film Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-07-19

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-08-09

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-07-19

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