Love and Technology

An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-53352-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Anthropology of Now

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-narrativisation, 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broeker, Fabian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Anchored Offline/Online: Approaches to the Digital 2. Affordances and Imaginaries 3. Simon is 883 Kilometres Away: Navigating City Spaces 4. Dating Culture and Narrativisation 5. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Fabian Broeker is a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in the Department of Media and Communications. His research interests encompass digital anthropology, intimacy, and new media.