Commodifying Intimate Relationships through Geosocial Networking Mobile Apps: Data-driven Dating, Sexual Sociality, and Online Body Objectification
Commodifying Intimate Relationships through Geosocial Networking Mobile Apps: Data-driven Dating, Sexual Sociality, and Online Body Objectification
Author(s): GRAȚIELA SIONSubject(s): Gender Studies, Media studies, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: geosocial networking mobile app; data-driven dating; sexual sociality;
Summary/Abstract: I draw on a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on commodifying intimate relationships through geosocial networking mobile apps, and to explore this, I inspected, used, and replicated survey data from Pew Research Center, performing analyses and making estimates regarding % of U.S. adults in each group who have used mobile dating apps, % in each age group who have ever used an online dating site and/or mobile dating app, and % of teens with relationship experience who spend time with a significant other in certain ways. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and test the proposed conceptual model.
Journal: Journal of Research in Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 9/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 78-84
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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