The minitel: the glittering future of a new invention
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Published on: August 1, 2014
1University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Journal of Homosexuality
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
In the eighties a new medium has found its way in French society: the minitel. It has influenced gay communication immediately, heavily and constantly. The role of the minitel in the gay world of the eighties is gone into. Some ideas are put forward as to why the minitel has been so successful in France. A connection is made between the minitel's success and the role of anonymity and promiscuity in the gay world. A theoretical explanation is sought in the link between urbanisation and social communication.
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