Miles, Sam. “Let’s (not) Go Outside: Grindr, Hybrid Space, and Digital Queer Neighborhoods.” In The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence, edited by Alex Bitterman and Daniel Baldwin, 203–220. Berlin: Springer Nature, 2020.

Location-based online platforms like dating apps radically change the way we navigate space. This has unique ramifications for gay neighbourhoods, which were built on a history of cruising culture and thus have distinct relationships with physical urban space.

Miles, Sam. Sex in the digital city: location-based dating apps and queer urban life. Gender, Place & Culture 24, no. 11 (2017): 1595-1610, doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1340874

Sam Miles analyses the differences between current online queer signalling methods, and pre-Internet ones.