How do you encourage people to date when social distancing? Apps are trying to figure it out.
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Research suggests the impact of dating apps depends on your local dating culture – and that varies hugely around the world.
App users recognise dating apps have some risks but they’ve developed a range of strategies to help them feel safer and to better negotiate consent and safe sex.
A feminist scholar wrote about her online dating experiences. She wasn’t expecting the avalanche of negative anti-feminist comments.
Bumble, the wildly popular dating app where women ask the men out relies on a girl-power model of feminism. The problem is that the men on Bumble aren’t ready for this model.
What to make of Grindr’s acquisition by a Chinese corporate group.
Researchers analyzed troves of messages sent between matches and found that the fibs people tell are usually rational ones that serve a purpose.
Grindr, the largest queer dating app worldwide, is all about the short term hookup; the currency used to attract your date is physical fitness versus wealth symbols, used by straight men on Tinder.
Sharing data about users’ HIV statuses is bad enough. But why collect it in the first place?
Judges and juries may not appreciate the nuances of messages from online dating services used as evidence in trials.
It isn’t cheating, per se. But if you’re in a committed relationship and have multiple ‘back burners’ that you keep in touch with, is your relationship doomed?
Dating apps have changed the way people present themselves. Visual cues and short 100 word bios are the new currency of dating.
Are dating apps destroying men’s self-esteem?
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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