This research will focus on understanding the new forms of relationships and sex-affective expressions mediated through social networks. Its purpose is to describe and analyze the diversity of practices, representations, and risk perceptions of users of digital applications designed for sexual bonding and/or searching for a partner.
The conceptual proposal considered is framed by the conceptions of vulnerability, risk perception, biopower, autonomy and agency, which are used to help understand and conceptualize the diversity of practices that are developed in digital environments. The hypothesis put forward indicates that social networks, by constituting a digital territory, facilitate new forms of social indoctrination and biopolitical control that influence decision-making and practices around people's sexual and sex-affective lives.
A multi-sited ethnography is also proposed in both organic and digital territories. The multi-situated ethnography includes geographical spaces such as San Cristóbal de las Casas, Veracruz and Mexico City, while the digital ethnography includes social networks such as Tínder, Grndr, Bumble, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The application of information gathering includes tools such as structured, semi-structured and unstructured interviews, the design of digital surveys and logs that help participants to record, know and analyze the use they make of digital spaces, the constitution of their digital identity and decision making, in the care and exercise of their sexual life, are all planned as part of the methodological proposal.
