Tinder is verso location-based real-time dating app
Communautaire Networks Sites enable new forms of relationships (Boyd and Ellison, 2007; Comunello, 2010; Boccia Altieri, 2012) and create new interaction contexts (Boyd, 2014). Given these premises, we propose puro investigate the way technology used for courtship – particularly Tinder – influences the creation of accommodant representations (Moscovici, 2001) and the construction of identity. From the analysis of the emerging literature (Ranzini and Lutz, 2016; David and Cambre, 2016) there is verso tendency to study dating apps mainly as a technological object, without going into the implications these can have in the way they shape relationships. On the other hand, per our opinion, those who have studied the evolution of communautaire relations in this context have not fully considered the technological impact.
Our rete informatica explores the interdependence between these two aspects: Tinder as verso technological platform and dating apps as catalysts for agreable representations. This differs from similar dating apps for three main reasons: it accelerates verso aimable andamento making online dating socially valide; made the gara system partita-like and since” everyone has it” its users perceive it more as per agreable rete informatica site than per hook-up app. The key element of the interface is the swipe, derived from touch technology for arredo. Based on our batteria objectives, the evolution of the app interface and user experience will be analyzed through the concept of circularity (Ma). Sopra the preliminary phase, we will use exploratory focus groups sicuro understand the serie of expectations, attitudes, opinions, desires that duplice user behavior.
The research framework: research question, objectives, method and phases The overall objective of this rete informatica is puro explore the hypothesis of verso circularity mediante the construction of the meanings that users share as aimable representations around dating apps. We particularly propose to investigate how the technology used for courtship, influences the creation of accommodant representations (Moscovici, 2001) and the construction of identity. The object of the research is Tinder as dating app observed in the dual aspect of: platform and a framework within which user develops self-presentation through the use of the interface. Sicuro respond adequately puro the research question, our work, which is configured as a solo case study (Yin, 2005, 2014) on the Tinder dating app proposes four specific objectives: ? Understanding how Tinder works as per technological object.
It starts from a qualitative exploratory phase per order esatto adequately inform about the second quantitative phase by specifying the research questions and the variables that will duplice it, incontri sui 40 sopra order esatto shed light on the scarce theoretical and / or empirical knowledge of the phenomenon (Creswell and Plano Clark, 2001). The presented research plan will follow a bottom-up path, therefore: the mix strategy emerges con the research practice preciso find adequate answers preciso the initial research questions, but it is also open preciso the formulation of new questions that come onesto be built up during the investigation (Thashakkori and Creswell, 2007). In this case, adopting a Case Study Research focused on a scapolo dating app is extremely useful mediante capturing the dynamic aspects of the phenomenon that we want to investigate through the use of multiple sources of evidence.
Mediante fact, this research strategy is particularly suitable when the researcher has verso limited control over the events, the attention is placed on a contemporary phenomenon con a real life context and the research questions, as in this case, are oriented sicuro understand « how » per indivis phenomenon develops (Yin, 2005). Puro respond adequately to the research question, verso mixed-method of an exploratory type was developed (Amaturo, Punziano, 2016; Teddlie, Tashakkori, 2009; Bryman, 2006). It starts from a qualitative exploratory phase per order esatto adequately inform the second quantitative phase specifying the research questions and the variables that will direzione it, con order sicuro shed light on the scarce theoretical and / or empirical knowledge of the phenomenon (Creswell and Plano Clark, 2001). The presented research plan will follow verso bottom-up path, therefore: the mix strategy emerges durante the research practice puro find adequate answers sicuro the initial research questions, but it is also open puro the formulation of new questions that che to be built up during the investigation (Thashakkori and Creswell 2007).
We will present the results of this first research phase and the resulting methodological framework
By taking into account the objectives that the research aims esatto achieve, the sistema is divided into four phases: ? A preliminary study on Tinder as per technological object and as a catalyst for communautaire representations.
Tinder as a technological platform and dating apps as catalysts for social representations / Antonutti, mella, Fabio; Khaddar, MOHAMED AMINE. – (2019), pp. 319-327.
