Tinder is a location-based real-time dating app

Communautaire Networks Sites enable new forms of relationships (Boyd and Ellison, 2007; Comunello, 2010; Globo Altieri, 2012) and create new interaction contexts (Boyd, 2014). Given these premises, we propose preciso investigate the way technology used for courtship – particularly Tinder – influences the creation of communautaire representations (Moscovici, 2001) and the construction of identity. From the analysis of the emerging literature (Ranzini and Lutz, 2016; David and Cambre, 2016) there is a tendency puro study dating apps mainly as per technological object, without going into the implications these can have con the way they shape relationships. On the other hand, in our opinion, those who have studied the evolution of social relations con this context have not fully considered the technological impact.

Our work explores the interdependence between these two aspects: Tinder as a technological platform and dating apps as catalysts for accommodant representations. This differs from similar [...]