This special issue, together with this position paper that accompanies it, aims at providing a
comprehensive framework to address this issue, introducing and theorizing the concept of …

The internet and digital technologies have penetrated all domains of people's lives, and
family life is no exception. Despite being a characterizing feature of contemporary family …

The proliferation of “sugar dating” websites, facilitating transactional relationships between a
“sugar baby” and a “sugar daddy,” raises new questions about the reconfigured relationship …

This article contributes to studies of implicit cultural policy in platformised societies by
offering an empirical study of dating apps and the ways in which they are operating a digital …

Prior research has produced contradictory findings regarding online daters' potential to
navigate the algorithmic systems to find compatible matches. Drawing upon a structuration …

This research paper focuses on online dating services. It explores the advantages and
disadvantages of online dating apps, concluding with a discussion to help users rationalize …

Dating platforms play the role of the traditional village matchmaker when they suggest
potential partners that would be a good fit ('match'). This paper reports from an in-depth …

In contemporary 'platformised'societies, digital businesses play a key role in producing and
reproducing romantic cultures. In this article, we explore how the digital industry of dating …

Previous studies have forwarded a self-fulfilling prophecy explanation for how algorithmic
beliefs may shape affective and relational outcomes of online dating (Hu & Rui, 2023; …

In the contemporary digital age, the experience of intimacy, sex, and love has been
profoundly transformed, in part due to technological transformations. How do individuals …