Left, right, Black, and White: how White college students talk about their inter- and intra- racial swiping preferences on Tinder

Peck, Alana; Berkowitz, Dana; Tinkler, Justine E.

doi:10.1080/02732173.2021.1916663

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“…Conducting the interview study online using a peer-to-peer approach had various advantages and disadvantages. One of the prevailing advantages was the familiarity and intimacy created by the peer-to-peer interview setting, as reported in earlier studies in facilitating critical inquiry ( Peck et al , 2021 ; Schmidt, 2017 ). Presumably, the familiar and trustful atmosphere enabled a greater openness from interview partners and correspondingly more in-depth information.…”

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confidence: 93%

A reflection on participatory research methodologies in the light of the COVID-19 – lessons learnt from the European Research Project TRIPS

König¹,

Hatzakis²,

Andrushevich³

et al. 2022

Open Res Europe

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has had considerable impacts on research projects, particularly those adopting participatory approaches. This paper reflects on the methodological adaptations employed by the European research project TRIPS to facilitate co-design and open innovation practices towards the development of accessible mobility solutions. The article reports how the methods were adapted to facilitate participatory research with almost no physical meetings. In doing so, the paper presents the alternative ‘distanced-based’ participatory approaches employed to engage users with disabilities and institutional stakeholders in the transport ecosystem, like online workshops, social media content analysis, online surveys and peer-to-peer telephone interviews. Lessons learnt and practical guidelines for distance-based participatory research are presented and discussed with the aim of increasing resilience in the light of future changes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

A reflection on participatory research methodologies in the light of the COVID-19 – lessons learnt from the European Research Project TRIPS

König¹,

Hatzakis²,

Andrushevich³

et al. 2022

Open Res Europe

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“…While studying racial preference among White heterosexual college-aged Tinder users, social scientists find that very few respondents use explicitly racist language to justify racial preferences [43]. White daters use the framing of "similar interests" to refer to perceived racial differences based on stereotypes [44].…”

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confidence: 99%

An E mpirical Exploration of Key Factors Influencing Community Resilience: Insights from Chinese Communities

Chen,

Zhu,

Luna-Reyes

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Despite the popularity and societal relevance of online dating, an absence of available data has made it difficult to understand how people meet and interact online. The few studies that do exist have largely failed to focus on women of color, despite broad consensus that online dating spaces are particularly toxic and unwelcoming for those users. To study such experiences, we created synthetic Tinder profiles featuring a racially diverse set of female stock photo models to see how they fared in the Tinder ecosystem. Profiles featuring White women received more matches and slightly more messages, but all profiles received similar message content. We discuss the implications of our results and limitations of our approach.

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“…Although the mission of these apps is to connect users, scholars have determined that dating apps, regardless of whether they are gay, lesbian, or straight apps, have been saturated with sexual racism across societies. Rather than connecting users, many scholars instead say that they divide users of different races and ethnicities (Chan et al, 2021; Chen and Liu, 2021; Conner, 2019; Han, 2021; Li and Chen, 2021; Peck et al, 2021; Pieber, 2021; Robinson, 2015; Stacey and Forbes, 2022; Ang et al, 2021). Political scientist Bedi (2015: 998) theorizes sexual racism as ‘prioritizing individuals as romantic partners in a way that reinforces ideas of racial hierarchy or stereotypes’ and points out that intimacy should be seen as a matter of social justice.…”

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“…Blatantly exclusionary racism is marked by users’ direct demonstration that they are not interested in a particular race, such as the discourse of ‘no black and no Asian’ (Chan et al, 2021; Li and Chen, 2021). But more often, people reveal their exclusionary desires in subtle ways, such as suggesting cultural incompatibility or blaming their family to validate their desires (Peck et al, 2021). The third sexual racism differs from the former two because rather than cast negative stereotypes on a certain race, users often express racial preferences for a certain race, often a non-white race, which is characterized as ‘positive racism’.…”

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Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?

Zhou

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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This paper reflects on the impact of dating apps’ removal of ethnicity filters on racial minority users. Many scholars, mass media, and dating app users believe that ethnicity filters mark an institutional endorsement of racism which is embedded in digital infrastructure. Accordingly, they have called for the removal of these filters. This advocacy is based on the assumption that expressions of racial preference are inherently racist. In the summer of 2020, many dating apps removed ethnicity filters to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. However, I argue that racial minorities often express intra-racial desires through ethnicity filters to valorize their own sexual capital, evade discrimination or fetishization, and gain sexual opportunities. Consequently, removing the ethnicity filter makes it harder for racial minorities to connect. Even worse, it creates a culture of compulsory interracial intimacy, exposing minority users to more vulnerability and racial trauma. Moreover, the lack of discussion on whether to remove filters other than ethnicity reveals the negligence of intersecting oppressions on dating apps. Thus, this paper highlights the need to be more attentive to racial minorities’ alternative uses of filters for self-empowerment, and to intersectional oppressions that should be tackled in designing inclusive dating apps.

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Left, right, Black, and White: how White college students talk about their inter- and intra- racial swiping preferences on Tinder

Cited by 12 publications

References 41 publications

A reflection on participatory research methodologies in the light of the COVID-19 – lessons learnt from the European Research Project TRIPS

A reflection on participatory research methodologies in the light of the COVID-19 – lessons learnt from the European Research Project TRIPS

An E mpirical Exploration of Key Factors Influencing Community Resilience: Insights from Chinese Communities

Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?

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