The emergence and popularization of dating apps have changed the way people meet and
interact with potential romantic and sexual partners. In parallel with the increased use of …

Dating apps have become one of the most prominent and contentious topics in the realm of
intimacy among the wider public and academia. Media and communication researchers …

The potential abuse of dating applications (apps), including during the current lockdowns
due to COVID-19, has resulted in a growing community of research to learn to what extent …

This paper reports an interview study about how consent to sexual activity is computer-
mediated. The study's context of online dating is chosen due to the prevalence of sexual …

The paper explores the perception and negotiation of gender representations and scripts
among Italian dating app users. Adopting a gender perspective and a socio-technical …

In the past four decades, sexuality research in China has made considerable
advancements. From historical and sociological perspectives, our study reviews the …

The design of social matching and dating apps has changed continually through the years,
marked notably by a shift to mobile devices, and yet user safety has not historically been a …

Drawing on domestication theory and intersectionality theory, this study explores the
multiple roles dating apps play in Chinese gay men's lives amid changing personal and …

Algorithmic recommendation systems (ARM) on dating apps serve users with a personalised
feed of profiles from other users based on the inferred preferences of the user being served …

Sexual-minority women (SMWs) in China are often subject to strong stigmatization and tend
to have limited opportunities to connect with other SMWs in offline contexts. Although dating …