Screened Intimacies: Tinder and the Swipe Logic

Screened Intimacies: Tinder and the Swipe Logic

This article seeks to amplify discursive constructions of social connection through technology with an examination of the proposed and presumed intimacies of the Tinder app. In the first half, we ethnographically examine the sociotechnical dynamics of how users navigate the app and take up or resist...

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Main Authors: Gaby David, Carolina Cambre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-04-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116641976
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spelling doaj-621f911a133940b49f6e8085a511e7db2020-11-25T02:41:22ZengSAGE PublishingSocial Media + Society2056-30512016-04-01210.1177/205630511664197610.1177_2056305116641976Screened Intimacies: Tinder and the Swipe LogicGaby David0Carolina Cambre1École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, FranceConcordia University, CanadaThis article seeks to amplify discursive constructions of social connection through technology with an examination of the proposed and presumed intimacies of the Tinder app. In the first half, we ethnographically examine the sociotechnical dynamics of how users navigate the app and take up or resist the subject positions encouraged by the user interface feature of swiping. In the second half, we provide a discussion of the implications of the swipe logic through post-structural conceptual lenses interrogating the ironic disruption of intimacy of Tinder’s interface.https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116641976
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description This article seeks to amplify discursive constructions of social connection through technology with an examination of the proposed and presumed intimacies of the Tinder app. In the first half, we ethnographically examine the sociotechnical dynamics of how users navigate the app and take up or resist the subject positions encouraged by the user interface feature of swiping. In the second half, we provide a discussion of the implications of the swipe logic through post-structural conceptual lenses interrogating the ironic disruption of intimacy of Tinder’s interface.
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