Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder

Signaled in its reputation as a “hookup app” or “sex app,” the mobile dating app Tinder has been accused of having ignited “hookup culture” associated with superficiality and sexual innuendo. However, little is known about how Tinder has obtained this notoriety and what Tinder is actually responsi...

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Main Author: Lee, Jin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79516
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description Signaled in its reputation as a “hookup app” or “sex app,” the mobile dating app Tinder has been accused of having ignited “hookup culture” associated with superficiality and sexual innuendo. However, little is known about how Tinder has obtained this notoriety and what Tinder is actually responsible for. This study analyzes talks about Tinder on Reddit (/r/Tinder), as part of Tinder culture where Tinder discourse and norms are established and shared in relation to broader youth pairing culture. Through a lens of feminist media scholarship, I show that an association between Tinder and hookups is couched in a gendered code of conduct, coolness. I argue that this gendered coolness in the economy of visibility of Tinder evokes and justifies misogyny online in line with the sexism inherent to hookup culture.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-795162020-06-03T00:55:22Z Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder Lee, Jin Social Sciences Communication Tinder visibility cool hookup online misogyny Signaled in its reputation as a “hookup app” or “sex app,” the mobile dating app Tinder has been accused of having ignited “hookup culture” associated with superficiality and sexual innuendo. However, little is known about how Tinder has obtained this notoriety and what Tinder is actually responsible for. This study analyzes talks about Tinder on Reddit (/r/Tinder), as part of Tinder culture where Tinder discourse and norms are established and shared in relation to broader youth pairing culture. Through a lens of feminist media scholarship, I show that an association between Tinder and hookups is couched in a gendered code of conduct, coolness. I argue that this gendered coolness in the economy of visibility of Tinder evokes and justifies misogyny online in line with the sexism inherent to hookup culture. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79516 10.1177/2056305119872949 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD fulltext
spellingShingle Social Sciences
Communication
Tinder
visibility
cool
hookup
online misogyny
Lee, Jin
Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder
title Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder
title_full Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder
title_fullStr Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder
title_full_unstemmed Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder
title_short Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder
title_sort mediated superficiality and misogyny through cool on tinder
topic Social Sciences
Communication
Tinder
visibility
cool
hookup
online misogyny
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79516