A Picture is Worth 1000 Messages: Investigating Face and Body Photos on Mobile Dating Apps for Men Who Have Sex with Men
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DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1610630
Abstract: ABSTRACT The present study investigated the way men visually self-present on MSM-specific mobile dating app profiles, as well as the connection between visual self-presentation strategies, demographic variables, and psychosocial attitudes about masculinity and the body.… read more here.
Keywords: self presentation; mobile dating; face body; face ... See more keywords
What is beautiful is not always good: influence of machine learning-derived photo attractiveness on intention to initiate social interactions in mobile dating applications
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DOI: 10.1080/09540091.2020.1814204
Abstract: The popularity of mobile dating applications has reconstructed how people initiate new romantic relationships. Photo attractiveness, the most prominent information provided in the online dating context before social interactions, has attracted considerable attention but reached… read more here.
Keywords: dating applications; mobile dating; photo attractiveness; social interactions ... See more keywords
Mobile Dating, Relational Communication, and Motivations for AIDS Risk Reduction among Chinese MSM College Students
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DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1560580
Abstract: ABSTRACT While the wide popularity of mobile dating has greatly emancipated men who have sex with men (MSM) from heterosexual orthodoxy, concerns have arisen as to whether an increase in dating opportunities will bring about… read more here.
Keywords: mobile dating; risk; relational communication; among chinese ... See more keywords
Romantic relationship initiation and escalation through mobile dating apps: Affordances, modality weaving, and paradoxical beliefs
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DOI: 10.1177/02654075241265064
Abstract: Like online dating sites, mobile dating applications are popular technologies for navigating the dating market, whether for seeking romantic relationships or sexual partners. The searching-matching-interacting (SMI) framework describes mate selection in the dating market and… read more here.
Keywords: mobile dating; relationship; dating apps; relationship initiation ... See more keywords