Dating apps: a literature review

Wu, Shangwei; Trottier, Daniel

doi:10.1080/23808985.2022.2069046

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“…The data show that Grindr is used for diverse reasons in the tourism context that extend beyond arranging casual sexual encounters, even in the case of tourists visiting for a short term. This supports the findings in the literature on Grindr (Corriero & Tong, 2016;Shield, 2017;Wu & Trottier, 2022) about its multiple uses. Furthermore, this research indicates that Grindr tourism in fact entails a bundle of practices which will be expanded upon below, which can range from an interaction on Grindr as small as getting a restaurant recommendation from a local without ever meeting in person, or an in-person date that constitutes of a guided tour of the city.…”

Section: Findings and Discussion: Practices Of Grindr Tourismsupporting

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“…A common cultural assumption is that Grindr is used solely to arrange casual sex. Yet studies have found that people use Grindr for multiple social reasons (Brubaker et al, 2014; Shield, 2017; Wu & Trottier, 2022), many of which are evident in the “looking for” drop-down menu options on Grindr profiles whereby users can state their intentions as “chat, dates, friends, networking, relationship, and right now” (a euphemism for casual sex). Interactions on Grindr may be situated within contexts of sex and relationships, but my intention in this article is to highlight other interactions that diverge from the “label” of casual sex often associated with Grindr (although these interactions may occur within relations that are sometimes sexual, and in such instances in the data, this will be discussed).…”

Section: Situating Grindr Tourism In the Literaturementioning

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Grindr Tourism Among Tourists, Locals, and Immigrants: Dating App Impacts for Social Relations, Gay Tourism, and Digital Convergence

Katz

2023

Social Media + Society

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Dating app tourism is a phenomenon that intersects both digital mobile media applications and tourism networks. As such, it represents a new but little-examined frontier in the study of sexuality, technology, and identity formation. Using a qualitative sociological approach, this exploratory study identifies Grindr tourism practices and their consequences for gay tourism, tourist-local relations, and digitally mediated social life. With Tel Aviv as the research site, Grindr tourism practices were analyzed using 19 in-depth interviews and six audio diaries. The concept of embedded learning is used to understand the communication that results from contemporary mobile media-integrated tourism. Grindr tourism practices are viewed as mutually beneficial by tourists, locals, and immigrants. Findings indicate that Grindr tourism contributes to tourists’ embedded learning about travel destinations, immigrants’ acclimation and friendship networks, and locals’ self-ascribed cosmopolitan, multicultural identities. The research also uncovered wider issues affecting sexuality, communication, migration movements, ethnicity, and the economic bodies that support large-scale tourism. Specifically, Grindr is used as a tool to arrange independent, mobile, non-institutionalized travel that serves as an alternative to LGBT + tourism industry institutions. Not only is Grindr tourism indicative of shifting travel practices, but it also reflects dating apps’ overarching tendency toward the convergence of multiple social functions into one platform.

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Section: Findings and Discussion: Practices Of Grindr Tourismsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Situating Grindr Tourism In the Literaturementioning

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Grindr Tourism Among Tourists, Locals, and Immigrants: Dating App Impacts for Social Relations, Gay Tourism, and Digital Convergence

Katz

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…According to our survey, the number of “stranger” social app users in China is still rising. Dating apps have become a prominent and contentious topic in discussions over intimacy among the wider public and in academia (Wu and Trottier, 2022 ). Chan ( 2020 ) conducted a detailed empirical study of the multiple uses of Momo, a popular Chinese dating app.…”

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A study of the factors influencing HIV-preventive intentions among “hookup” application users

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“Hooking up” refers to the act of experiencing sexual intimacy with strangers without committing to a romantic relationship. Social media provide more convenient conditions for hooking up; however, it also poses a greater risk for HIV infection. Therefore, it is necessary to study the factors influencing the HIV-preventive intentions of those who engage in online dating to devise effective strategies for preventing the spread of HIV. This study consisted of a questionnaire that was distributed to 520 users of the Hello Group application. The survey results revealed that structural equation modeling is a useful framework for understanding the risk of HIV transmission in casual hookup encounters. In addition, combining the health belief model with the theory of planned behavior can provide recommendations for enhancing HIV-preventive intentions among users of dating applications. The results showed that mindfulness, the Chinese cultural context, perceived benefits, and self-efficacy were the main predictors of users' HIV-preventive intentions when using online dating applications. Among the perceived HIV risks, only perceived barriers had a negative effect on users' HIV-preventive intentions. In addition, attitude, subjective norms, and behavior control served as mediating variables between independent variables and HIV-preventive intentions; however, the mediating effect of attitude on perceived benefits and intentions was not significant. According to our study, some users misunderstand the risks and make incorrect assessments of the cultural risks of hooking up. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the research on the psychological tendencies of users and risk intervention when studying the concept of hooking up.

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“…Online dating has received considerable attention in the past decades from various academic disciplines (see Wu and Trottier (2022) and Degim et al (2015) for comprehensive literature overviews). Yet, it is not our aim to provide a literature review of this body of research because we are not directing our lens to different aspects concerning how people use or perceive dating sites per se.…”

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construction of matches in dating platforms

Pettersen

Døving

2023

NJSTS

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Dating platforms play the role of the traditional village matchmaker when they suggest potential partners that would be a good fit (‘match’). This paper reports from an in-depth study of the matching machinery of four dating platforms using a recommendation system based on a matchmaker model to suggest matches. While content-based recommendation systems form suggestions based on the users’ behaviour and interaction patterns, a matchmaker model uses information about the user to form recommendations. In the matchmaker model, what the IT system characterises as the ideal formation and a ‘good match’ is revealed. By using the reverse-engineering method, we find that of the four platforms investigated, three construct and form matches based on the couple’s degree of similarities along psychological and personal aspects, while one platform is based on a ‘the more similar along all kinds of axes, the better’-model. None of the platforms employs the anthropological hypergamy principle, which refers to the tendency of women to choose partners of similar or higher social status, while men do the opposite, into its matching account. Match value, which we conceptualise as the match score assigned by the platforms to couples, is a key component in the platforms’ matching machinery. Match value is a numeric value presented as an objective and scientific score, representing the degree of how well two persons ‘fit’ together. The platforms reduce individuals and relationships to a numeric value based on a psychological personality model, which ignores the person’s wider social network, class and context. The ranked order of matches does not consequently correspond with the match value, which suggests that the platforms provide benefits for paying members.

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Dating apps: a literature review

Cited by 27 publications

References 97 publications

Grindr Tourism Among Tourists, Locals, and Immigrants: Dating App Impacts for Social Relations, Gay Tourism, and Digital Convergence

Grindr Tourism Among Tourists, Locals, and Immigrants: Dating App Impacts for Social Relations, Gay Tourism, and Digital Convergence

A study of the factors influencing HIV-preventive intentions among “hookup” application users

construction of matches in dating platforms

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