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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 DasguptaThis 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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Social Media + SocietyISSN
2056-3051Publisher
SageExternal DOI
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4Volume
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1-8Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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2016-07-19First Open Access (FOA) Date
2016-08-09First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-07-19Usage metrics
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