Folk Theories of Online Dating: Exploring People’s Beliefs About the Online Dating Process and Online Dating Algorithms

How do online daters come to understand and make sense of their online dating experiences and the algorithms that underlie online dating platforms? Across two mixed-method studies, we take a metaphoric approach to identify and explore people’s folk theories about traditional dating, online dating, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sabrina Angela Huang, Jeffrey Hancock, Stephanie Tom Tong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-04-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221089561