Dating apps have changed how men interact with women when pursuing heterosexual relationships. A sexuality scholar writes about her experiences online, and her observations on changing masculinity.
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Dating apps provide a valuable social service. The industry should be regulated to protect consumers, increase competition and address fraud.
The world’s largest online dating company – which runs Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, The League and more – is being sued for making its apps too addictive. Are we swiping right into a trap?
Some apps are already introducing safety features.
Something to bear in mind if you find yourself swiping through profiles on a dating app later today.
Use of dating apps is on the rise and they can provide a wealth of choice. Research also shows that they can leave some users feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.
Australians could once claim compensation for injuries arising from a broken engagement. Today, the responsibility for romantic injury has been individualised and feminised, its pain trivialised.
Confident chatbots could undermine trust and romance - but probably won’t. They may even enhance online dating.
The convenience of dating apps can also make them difficult to navigate.
Chinese-oriented online dating platforms create “Chinatowns” in cyberspace, where Chinese daters gather in hopes of finding true love.
A recent government roundtable proposed stricter profile verification conditions as a response to safety concerns on dating apps. But research suggests users want something else.
Two women ruled the dating app tech industry last year. How they were portrayed by mainstream media versus how they portrayed themselves in social media says a lot about how women leaders are viewed.
This isn’t the first dating app to intersect tech, dating, intimacy and politics.
Launched in 2015, Raya, prides itself on being ‘an exclusive dating and networking platform for people in creative industries’.
Newer apps like Thursday prioritise meeting in person over possibly endless online chat.
Women don’t want to ‘intimidate’ a man through their photos – but this is just one way they are hiding their true selves.
The study found most use Tinder casually because they’re bored, playing with the app like a kind of smartphone game - even though many use it to find true love.
If you use dating apps, you might have experienced ghosting, or worse.
Dating on apps is the new reality, but do they really make dating easier? A Cape Town study finds Tinder complicates it further.
Organized crime gangs in Southeast Asia use psychological profiling, elaborate scripts and algorithms to produce sophisticated scams. Using dating apps, they target vulnerable people looking for love.
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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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Honorary Research Fellow of The Ethics Lab, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Washington
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Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University