The ethnographic analysis entailed on the internet and offline participant-observation, as well as 36 audio-recorded semi-structured interviews with internet dating software customers, and 45 cam interview on Tinder, Bumble and OkCupid.

Whilst 36 audio-recorded interview all lasted between 40 and 90 mins, the time associated with the cam interviews ended up being a lot more powerful since studies participants are not scheduled to a fixed interview some time and answered whenever these people were readily available. Continue reading “Unlike Bumble and Tinder, OkCupid was initially a dating internet site, prior to rebranding as an app as a result of interest in these brand-new networks. OkCupid’s earliest idea as a dating website aimed by itself with Chan’s” →