Where matchmaking suits data: examining personal and institutional confidentiality questions on Tinder
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T1 – Where online dating meets data
T2 – Investigating social and institutional privacy issues on Tinder
AU – Lutz, Christoph
N2 – The prevalent diffusion of location-based real-time dating or mobile internet dating applications, particularly Tinder and Grindr, is evolving internet dating practices. The affordances of those matchmaking apps vary from those of “old school” adult dating sites, for instance, by privileging picture-based selection, reducing place for textual self-description, and drawing upon present Facebook profile facts.