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Abstract
"Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps fit into Berlin's unique dating culture and brand of intimacy, and form a tangible nucleus around which users navigate dating rituals, romantic biographies, and digitally mediated intimacies within city space. Drawing on the field of digital anthropology, this book takes the form of an immersive ethnography, resulting from 13 months of fieldwork with young dating app users, across Tinder, Bumble, and OkCupid, in Berlin. It argues that dating apps offer, or impose, depending on their context of use, a series of affordances. These affordances, and the technological devices they rely upon, exist through the relation between users and their environment, both in terms of physical spaces and cultural frameworks. The book posits that dating apps are woven into spatial practices and self-narrativization, constituting imagined communities for their users, as well as a canvas, alongside the city of Berlin, against which to characterise romantic experiences. Scholars interested in digital anthropology, ethnography, dating, and regional Berlin will find that Love and Technology offers a vibrant springboard for thinking through both theoretical and methodological concerns"--
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Approaches to Dating Apps -- COVID-19: Everyday Life in Extraordinary Circumstances -- Overview -- 1 Anchored Offline/Online: Approaches to the Digital -- Digital Ethnography -- Data Collection -- Boundaries -- Closing Remarks -- Note -- 2 Affordances and Imaginaries -- Tinder and Bumble: An Introduction -- OkCupid: From Dating Website to Dating App -- Imagining Communities/Shaping Technologies -- Rituals of Transition -- Notifications: Accessing Intimacy -- Courting Actuality -- Gaze of the Unknown: Algorithms -- "We Will Not Be Locked Off Forever": Dating Apps in a Pandemic -- Conclusion -- 3 Simon Is 883 Kilometres Away: Navigating City Spaces -- "I Basically Ordered Him Here": Spatial Dynamics of Dating -- Reading Space -- Speaking Space/Speaking Truth -- "There Is This Label": Real Dates -- Masked Proximities: Hiding the Space of Flows -- "I Live in Tempelhof, Nobody Will Come There": Sharing Distance -- COVID-19: Shifting Spaces -- Conclusion -- 4 Dating Culture and Narrativisation -- Storytelling Practices Within Dating Culture -- Screenshots -- "That's Not How You Imagine Meeting Your Partner": Story Hierarchies -- Narrativisations of Berlin -- "Nothing Serious Can Happen": Dating in Berlin -- Realigning Narratives During COVID-19 -- Conclusion -- 5 Conclusion -- Dating and Digital Mediation -- Real Cities and Real Life -- COVID-19: Reworking the Field-Site -- Tensions -- Sharing Intimacy -- Closing Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
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