A Victorian parliamentary inquiry has examined anti-LGBTQIA+ attacks facilitated online and through dating apps. Here’s what can be done to keep people safe.
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The promise of dating apps like Tinder was to make it easier to meet people, but the results have included more casual sexual encounters, greater difficulty finding stable relationships and an even more competitive dating scene.
Before the end of the year, dating app Bumble will be getting rid of the swipe and introducing an AI powered dating assistant.
Most current safety initiatives focus on responding to online-enabled harm, not prevention.
Dating apps reshape human connection, love, choice and intimacy into market transactions designed to maximize profit rather than build relationships.
In the lead up to Valentine’s Day, dating apps get busier – and so do scammers.
Rejection is unfortunately very common on dating apps. Remind yourself it isn’t personal, even if if feels like it.
Queer and trans people can experience harm through dating apps. Here’s what they — and the apps themselves — can do to change that.
Categorising who you are on a dating app could be limiting your dating field and also who you think are.
Many Gen Z people are tired of dating apps, but haven’t had the same opportunities to build in-person social skills that some of us older folks take for granted.
Apps and users might be hopeful that Gen-AI can make dating apps fun again.
Whether you’re single, dating, married or somewhere in between, our love lives are increasingly mediated by technology.
When an online match lies or disappears, it can leave us feeling confused and hopeless.
Questions remain about whether Reform has made the Tories redundant in the political sphere – but it’s a done deal in the world of romance.
The search for a romantic alternative to boredom, cynicism and fatigue.
Do dating apps make you feel worse about yourself? A new review of 45 studies suggests that might be the case.
Another reason could be men’s testosterone levels increase over the winter months.
Treena Orchard and Carolina Bandinelli talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how dating apps have changed expectations about the search for love.
Romantic attraction is driven by a complex set of factors, including who people grow up around and what is familiar and comfortable to them. But discriminatory laws also play a role.
Dating apps are powerful allies for public health organisations - but there are still ethical issues to address.
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Associate Professor, School of Health Studies, Western University
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Academic, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Relationships, University of South Wales
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Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds
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Postdoctoral fellow, Sociology, Western University
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Concordia University
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Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Washington
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