“I Shut the Door”: Interactions, tensions, and negotiations from a location-based social app

Location-based social apps leverage mobile phones to provide face-to-face (FtF) social opportunities for physically proximate individuals, such as finding nearby people to socialize, date, or hook up. Prior work on dating and hookup apps has focused mostly on profiles and user goals, but this leaves...

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Published in:New media & society 2018-07, Vol.20 (7), p.2469-2488
Main Authors: Fitzpatrick, Colin, Birnholtz, Jeremy
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