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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"dating app"”.
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Günther Anders’ Theory of Media and Communication: Developing a Conception of Technological Domination, Alienation and Ideology with Marx beyond Marx
… view of domination, alienation and ideology, applying it to the question of industrial warfare, nuclear annihilation and post-war consumer technologies. I show how aspects of contemporary digital societies illustrate Anders’ critical theory of technology. I choose two case studies: military …
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Down the rabbit hole: an ethnography on loving, desiring and tindering in Cape Town
… and tindering offers insights into how the dating application (app) Tinder is adopted in establishing various kinds of intimacy in Cape Town. Given the scholarly neglect of intimacy's sensory aspects (especially when looking at Africa), the study, based on interviews and participant …
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Exploring the relationship between Tinder usage and body-image, self-esteem and self-objectification
… studies are inconsistent on whether or not dating app usage positively or negatively affects users self-esteem, body image and self-objectification with varied results. Therefore the aim of this study is to examine whether Tinder usage negatively affects users self-esteem, body image and …
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Masculinities and Femininities: Romance and Authenticity on American Dating Apps
The phenomenon of dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Grindr display the way image-based technologies allow for a new visual literacy. This study investigates how the experience of using dating applications (apps) related to Giddens’s notion of romance and explored the way visual literacy was …
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"It's exhausting:" A narrative exploration of black millennials experiences with online dating
This study applied critical narrative analysis to explore the lived experiences and stories of Black millennials and their use of social media and dating apps to form relationships. There is existing research on the state of Black marriage rates and success in the United States and existing …
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Enlightened: Can short-form news videos open minds?
… in the world of social media and mobile applications (e.g. TikTok). To investigate whether this media format can be used to restore the shared reality among U.S. liberals and conservatives, I built a mobile-first progressive web application Enlightened that presents short, swipeable news …
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Modality switching in online dating: identifying the communicative factors that make the transition from an online to an offline relationship more or less successful
… of the most significant turning points in online dating occurs when partners decide to meet face-to-face (FtF) for the first time. Existing theory proposes that the affordances of the Internet can lead people to develop overly positive impressions of those they meet online, which could prove …
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Strategic Interference and Tinder Use: A Mixed-Method Exploration of Romantic Interactions in Contemporary Contexts
… sexual goals in ways that they believe will appeal to the sex to which their romantic partner belongs. The following three studies explored whether these gender differences and encounters with strategic interference are still prevalent in the age of new dating technologies. Study one …
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Flexible Privacy via Disguising and Revealing
… and protect their profiles on an e-commerce or dating app when inactive, and to recover their accounts should they return to the application. However, services often provide only coarse-grained tools that result in all-or-nothing exposure of users’ private data. This thesis introduces the notion …