Tindering in the Field: Dating Apps, Ethnography, and Discomfort

Spector, Branwen

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dc.contributor.author	Spector, Branwen	de
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-16T15:39:20Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-16T15:39:20Z
dc.date.issued	2024	de
dc.identifier.issn	2199-7942	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/99083
dc.description.abstract	This article explores the ethical and safety implications of using dating apps as a method in ethnographic research. Drawing on my experience with this approach whilst conducting fieldwork across social and physical boundaries in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, I explore the discomforts that arise in the process of using platforms associated with sex and romance. Attending to my own discomforts as well as those of my professional peers and my interlocutors, I make recommendations for an ethical approach to the use of dating apps as a networking tool. In the process I critique the nature of professionalism in anthropology, locating it in patriarchal and orientalist western values. I then unpack the unique affordances of and discourses around safety and dating app use, outlining where anthropologists can benefit from including these in their ethnographic practice.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.ddc	Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Social sciences, sociology, anthropology	en
dc.subject.other	dating apps; discomfort; Tinder	de
dc.title	Tindering in the Field: Dating Apps, Ethnography, and Discomfort	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/article/view/2327/2101	de
dc.source.journal	EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien
dc.source.volume	26	de
dc.publisher.country	DEU	de
dc.source.issue	1	de
dc.subject.classoz	Kommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik	de
dc.subject.classoz	Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics	en
dc.subject.classoz	Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Ethnographie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	ethnography	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Soziale Medien	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Vernetzung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	networking	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Methode	de
dc.subject.thesoz	method	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Palästina	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Palestine	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Romantik	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Romanticism	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Medienkonsum	de
dc.subject.thesoz	media consumption	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Partnerwahl	de
dc.subject.thesoz	choice of partner	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-8.ethnoscripts.v26i1.2327	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0	en
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	19-48	de
internal.identifier.classoz	10217
internal.identifier.classoz	10400
internal.identifier.journal	1438
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	301
internal.identifier.ddc	300
dc.source.issuetopic	Dating Apps beyond Dating	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
internal.identifier.licence	24
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internal.dda.reference	https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/oai@@oai:ojs.journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de:article/2327
ssoar.urn.registration	false	de

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