The potential abuse of dating applications (apps), including during the current lockdowns
due to COVID-19, has resulted in a growing community of research to learn to what extent …

The design of social matching and dating apps has changed continually through the years,
marked notably by a shift to mobile devices, and yet user safety has not historically been a …

With today's world revolving around online interaction, dating applications (apps) are a
prime example of how people are able to discover and converse with others that may share …

A chronicle, a memoir, a reflection on the pandemic, and a cultural analysis of the new
spatial, social, and epistemological forms that have arisen with it, this volume weaves …

This article focusses on the courtship rituals and practices of intimacy among young dating
app users, aged between 20 and 33, in Berlin. Dating app users participate in 'rituals of …

Based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Berlin in 2019 and 2020, partly
during the COVID-19 lockdown, this article seeks to address the spatial dynamics …

Social computing platforms facilitate interpersonal harms that manifest across online and
physical realms such as sexual violence between online daters and sexual grooming …

This protocol outlines a mixed-methods study to explore the dynamics of intimacy on dating
apps before, during and after the crisis years of COVID-19 in the UK; how these …

Introduction In recent years, China's divorce rates have remained high, especially in
metropolitan areas such as Beijing and Shanghai, where rates reach up to 40 …

This Element outlines the environments of loving in contemporary technoculture and
explains the changes in the manner of feelings (including the experience of senses, spaces …