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Maria B. Garda

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Let’s Play Tinder! : Aesthetics of a Dating App

2021

This article provides an analysis of the “dating app” Tinder as an aesthetic ludic artifact. By scrutinizing the title’s features of gameplay and expressive–interpretive social interaction, Tinder usage is set into a frame theory context and shown to operate by multiple overlapping frames that allow romantic engagement to be entered as play and vice versa. peerReviewed

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Let’s Play Tinder! Aesthetics of a Dating App

2019

This article provides an analysis of the “dating app” Tinder as an aesthetic ludic artifact. By scrutinizing the title’s features of gameplay and expressive–interpretive social interaction, Tinder usage is set into a frame theory context and shown to operate by multiple overlapping frames that allow romantic engagement to be entered as play and vice versa.

Cultural StudiesArtifact (archaeology)CommunicationTindermedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences050801 communication & media studies050109 social psychologyArtSocial relationHuman-Computer Interaction0508 media and communicationsArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)AestheticsAnthropology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSocial mediaApplied Psychologymedia_commonGames and Culture
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