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About Mathew Gagné
Mathew Gagné is an assistant professor in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. His current research, entitled Gay Sex and Social Media in Beirut: The Erotic Life of Information, examines the political affects of digital media, specifically sex apps, within the intimate lives of queer Beiruti men. His research is published in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communications, Jadaliyya.com and Muftah.org, as well as chapters in Home: Ethnographic Encounters (Bloomsbury) and the forthcoming book Sex in the Middle East and North Africa (Vanderbilt University Press).NBN Episodes hosted by Mathew:
February 2, 2023
Computing Taste
The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, ta…
September 8, 2022
Sex in the Middle East and North Africa
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster,'s edited volume Sex in the Middle East and North Africa (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) examines the sexual practices, politics,…
June 29, 2022
Queer Companions
In Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP, 2022), Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the const…
December 24, 2021
Visions of Beirut
In Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure (Duke UP, 2021), Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has s…
October 20, 2021
Screen Shots
In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bys…