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

Maria B. GardaVeli-matti Karhulahti

subject

pelillistäminengameplaytreffitComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTINGTindersosiaalinen mediamobiilisovelluksetesteettisyyssovellusohjelmatdeittipalvelutestetiikka

description

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

http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202010126162