Where Dating Meets Data: Investigating Social and Institutional Privacy Concerns on Tinder

The widespread diffusion of location-based real-time dating or mobile dating apps, such as Tinder and Grindr, is changing dating practices. The affordances of these dating apps differ from those of “old school” dating sites, for example, by privileging picture-based selection, minimizing room for te...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christoph Lutz, Giulia Ranzini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-03-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117697735