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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"dating apps"”.
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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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The Role of Boredom, Loneliness, and Technology Use as Predictors of Sexual Responsibility among Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… loneliness, online risk behavior, intent to use dating apps/websites for casual sex, and intent to use dating apps/websites for romance. Gender differences in sexual responsibility subscales were also explored. ANOVAS yielded women with autism exhibited more sexual responsibility on both …
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"It's exhausting:" A narrative exploration of black millennials experiences with online dating
… 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 research on the various intersections of technology and its usage by various generations and …
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Designing to improve social platform experiences for and with queer young men
… to intra-community harms on platforms such as dating apps. Recent work within HCI has exposed some of these issues, although there are limitations with existing work understanding current experiences and there is a lack of work that involves design approaches. To address these gaps and extend …
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“A fun experience...but bad for the soul...”: Perceptions and impacts of hookup culture among young adults in Iceland
Abstract Relationships and dating are often common factors in young adults’ lives, but some claim that, in recent years, the dating culture of young adults has taken a drastic turn and is now more focused on quick, casual relationships and hookups rather than long-term, committed relationships. …
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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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Keep Austin Queer: Performativity of Queer Space in Austin, Texas
… events, and cyber spaces such as social media, dating apps, and websites. However, the literature does not allow participants to offer their own definition and perception of queer spaces. This study utilizes qualitative in-depth interviews with members of the LGBTQIA+ community who live and/or …
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Claiming Identity through Space: LGBTQ+ Community Building via Commercial Development in West Hollywood and Palm Springs
… speaking) and the advent of social media and dating apps, some question whether the gayborhood is dying or even necessary anymore. I argue that the gayborhood as a framework, though evolving, persists in its relevance due to its core commitment to LGBT+ community building. And its resilience …
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Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations of the Romantic
… to reassert the ‘naturalness’ of love outside dating apps, my project offers a more complex paradigm that accounts for the restructuring time, the body, or human subjectivity in the algorithmic love condition, legitimizing the digital experience and exploring new avenues for “inhabiting” …
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Günther Anders’ Theory of Media and Communication: Developing a Conception of Technological Domination, Alienation and Ideology with Marx beyond Marx
… I choose two case studies: military drones and dating apps. I show that Anders’ theory can help us understand how these technologies are involved in modern forms of domination, alienation and ideology. I do this by using critical discourse analysis (CDA) to evaluate the written and spoken …
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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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Modern technological environments and individual differences in attractiveness perceptions from physical characteristics
… mindset’, where a large pool of online dating options orient daters towards novel mates in the hopes of finding an optimal partner, rather than committing to a current partner or romantic prospect. Chapter 2 in this thesis directly tests Finkel and colleagues’ theory of an ‘assessment …
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It's a Match: Shaadi.com, Tinder, and the Fantasy of Frictionless-ness
… to unpack the cultural principles underlying the apps that shape our interpersonal relationships today. I demonstrate that these apps are grounded in a fantasy of frictionless-ness, or the desire to shield the self from discomfort caused by external factors, and argue that this is a fraught …