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An app to stop a blazing row? No thanks...
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | online dating, addiction, threat, youth
Summary | There seems to be an app for everything nowadays, As if this generation of smartphone addicts needed to digitalize any more aspects of their lives. Our relationship were digitally invaded with Tinder ( a statistic says that 30% of people on there are married). Now there is even an app that monitors our emotional responses when fighting with our partner via a bracelet which functions as a stand-in robot counsellor.
Image Description | Alamy image of a fighting couple (woman verbally attacking man).
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
This ends in wedding bells
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 10.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | online dating
Summary | A man tells the story of how he met his now wife on an online dating app called Bumble. It is a little different from Tinder in that women need to do the first step and chat up a male match. They only get 24 hours to do that or the match is lost. Dating has moved to the digital sphere for many people nowadays.
Image Description | Illustration of a man and a woman on a bicycle.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Sexting’s paradox: it’s just no fun
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 24.2.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | online dating, research/study, sexting
Summary | Many people lie when sexting, meaning that they might be having a snack in their kitchen wearing sweat pants but writing something completely different. Because sexting is so completely detached from any actual physicality the mere innuendo is enough to entertain participants, even if it does not lead to an actual orgasm. Sexting is in a way a 'shared daydream'. A recent study reports that about half of their informants had sexted even though they were not really up for it.
Image Description | Photograph of a topless woman lying on a bed on her stomach with two kittens and jeans ripped so that they reveal parts of her behind.
Image Tags | female(s)
It may be shallow and salacious, but don’t blame Tinder for online misogyny
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | gender, online dating, research/study, social media, threat
Summary | A new study revealed that the dating app Tinder spreads sexism and ideals of beauty; however, according to the author of the article, such behavior is not new. The media tends to portray new technologies and new apps as responsible for numerous societal ills, thus being dangerous. This new research follows a similar discourse while blaming the dating app Tinder of misogyny. However, sexism and beauty standards also existed before the age of social media. Thus, sexist comments are not the result of new technologies/apps; they go well beyond our digital devices.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone with the Tinder app open; we can see parts of a woman's face and a big LIKE in green.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone, Tinder
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