Tinder is per location-based real-time dating app
Social Networks Sites enable new forms of relationships (Boyd and Ellison, 2007; Comunello, 2010; Palla Altieri, 2012) and create new interaction contexts (Boyd, 2014). Given these premises, we propose onesto investigate the way technology used for courtship – particularly Tinder – influences the creation of aimable 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 a tendency to study dating apps mainly as per technological object, without going into the implications these can have con the way they shape relationships. On the other hand, per our opinion, those who have studied the evolution of communautaire relations mediante this context have not fully considered the technological impact.
Our rete informatica explores the interdependence between these two aspects: Tinder as per technological platform and dating apps as catalysts for affable representations. This differs from similar dating apps for three main reasons: it accelerates verso social inclinazione making online dating socially valide; made the scontro system partita-like and since” everyone has it” its users perceive it more as a affable sistema site than verso hook-up app. The key element of the interface is the swipe, derived from touch technology for trasportabile. Based on our set objectives, the evolution of the app interface and user experience will be analyzed through the concept of circularity (Ma). Durante the preliminary phase, we will use exploratory focus groups to understand the arnesi of expectations, attitudes, opinions, desires that doppio user behavior.
The research framework: research question, objectives, method and phases The overall objective of this work is puro explore the hypothesis of per circularity durante the construction of the meanings that users share as social representations around dating apps. We particularly propose to investigate how the technology used for courtship, influences the creation of agreable representations (Moscovici, 2001) and the construction of identity. The object of the research is Tinder as dating app observed per the dual aspect of: platform and verso framework within which user develops self-presentation through the use of the interface. To respond adequately to the research question, our work, which is configured as a single case study (Yin, 2005, 2014) on the Tinder dating app proposes four specific objectives: ? Understanding how Tinder works as a technological object.
It starts from per qualitative exploratory phase mediante order preciso adequately inform about the second quantitative phase by specifying the research questions and the variables that will rotaie it, in order preciso 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 in the research practice to find adequate answers esatto the initial research questions, but it is also open esatto the formulation of new questions that ad esempio puro be built up during the investigation (Thashakkori and Creswell, 2007). Mediante this case, Visita qui adopting a Case Study Research focused on a single dating app is extremely useful in capturing the dynamic aspects of the phenomenon that we want preciso investigate through the use of multiple sources of evidence.
In fact, this research strategy is particularly suitable when the researcher has a limited control over the events, the attention is placed on verso contemporary phenomenon in per real life context and the research questions, as con this case, are oriented esatto understand “how” per excretion phenomenon develops (Yin, 2005). To 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 per qualitative exploratory phase durante order esatto adequately inform the second quantitative phase specifying the research questions and the variables that will doppio 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 per bottom-up path, therefore: the mix strategy emerges durante the research practice to find adequate answers to the initial research questions, but it is also open esatto the formulation of new questions that quale puro 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 rete di emittenti is divided into four phases: ? Per preliminary study on Tinder as per technological object and as verso catalyst for social representations.
Tinder as per technological platform and dating apps as catalysts for communautaire representations / Antonutti, mella, Fabio; Khaddar, MOHAMED AMINE. – (2019), pp. 319-327.