Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’
This roundtable paper is part of the project ‘Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge.’ It aims to investigate how digital dating apps reconfigure cultural attitudes to love and intimacy and, conversely, how said attitudes influence digital dating practices. The conversation is informed by (n)ethnograp...
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| description | This roundtable paper is part of the project ‘Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge.’ It aims to investigate how digital dating apps reconfigure cultural attitudes to love and intimacy and, conversely, how said attitudes influence digital dating practices. The conversation is informed by (n)ethnographic usage of the app. As algorithms and affordances of dating applications can implicitly or explicitly privilege certain groups of users and exclude others, this conversation mainly aims to make sense of how Hinge’s interface – or ‘affordances’– facilitates the dating process and how inclusive and diverse the application’s affordances are. We discuss that there is a contradiction between what Hinge portrays itself to be and what it practically ends up being, partly because of its affordances. This roundtable highlights the need to study affordances as relational technologies and to take the perceptions, ideas, and interpretations of users seriously alongside the actual features and designs offered by applications. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bcdb2cdf0b12441ca915cf2e03e055132023-06-30T07:58:25ZengGhent UniversityDiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies2593-02812023-06-0110110.21825/digest.87181Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’Balázs Boross0Erinne Paisley1Faye Mercier2Ladan RahbariLouis Zimman3Misha Kavka4Department of Media Studies, University of AmsterdamDepartment of Media Studies, University of AmsterdamDepartment of Media Studies, University of AmsterdamDepartment of Sociology, University of AmsterdamDepartment of Media Studies, University of AmsterdamThis roundtable paper is part of the project ‘Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge.’ It aims to investigate how digital dating apps reconfigure cultural attitudes to love and intimacy and, conversely, how said attitudes influence digital dating practices. The conversation is informed by (n)ethnographic usage of the app. As algorithms and affordances of dating applications can implicitly or explicitly privilege certain groups of users and exclude others, this conversation mainly aims to make sense of how Hinge’s interface – or ‘affordances’– facilitates the dating process and how inclusive and diverse the application’s affordances are. We discuss that there is a contradiction between what Hinge portrays itself to be and what it practically ends up being, partly because of its affordances. This roundtable highlights the need to study affordances as relational technologies and to take the perceptions, ideas, and interpretations of users seriously alongside the actual features and designs offered by applications.https://www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/87181/AffordancesDating appDiversityHingeInclusionNetnography |
| spellingShingle | Balázs Boross Erinne Paisley Faye Mercier Ladan Rahbari Louis Zimman Misha Kavka Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’ DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies Affordances Dating app Diversity Hinge Inclusion Netnography |
| title | Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’ |
| title_full | Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’ |
| title_fullStr | Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’ |
| title_full_unstemmed | Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’ |
| title_short | Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’ |
| title_sort | roundtable affordances diversity and inclusion on dating apps a dialogue between sociologists and media studies researchers about hinge |
| topic | Affordances Dating app Diversity Hinge Inclusion Netnography |
| url | https://www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/87181/ |
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