Forced Empowerment and the Paradox of Mobile Dating Apps
New women-focused mobile dating apps purport to empower women by having them “make the first move” and disrupt traditional male-dominated dating norms. Drawing on feminist approaches and technological affordances, we examine how heterosexual cisgender women and men experience this “empowerment” and...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-12-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211068130 |