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This book embraces the idea that app-based dating is not only common, but largely de-stigmatized and normative. The purpose of this book is to address what normative dating app use looks like. How do people use these tools? How does dating virtually mirror and differ from ways of meeting partners offline? How do social identities such as race, class, and gender impact experiences with dating apps, and what is the impact of this new form of partner-seeking on our social institutions? In short, this book creates a broad critical overview of just what, exactly, dating apps are, and how people are impacted by them. This big picture is developed through a mixed-methods study which includes interviews with dating app users from a variety of backgrounds, app walkthrough and content analysis data of the apps themselves and their marketing materials, and additional survey data from hard-to-reach populations that seem less likely to use dating apps or find them a productive tool. In weaving these stories together, it becomes easier to understand how social forces shape digital technologies, even those connected to our intimate lives, and vice-versa.
| Published | Nov 13 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781978768680 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
