A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Let's Play Tinder! Aesthetics of a Dating App
Authors: Maria Garda, Veli-Matti Karhulahti
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Games and Culture
Number of pages: 14
ISSN: 1555-4120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412019891328
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412019891328
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/43648707
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.
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