Love and Technology

ISBN-13: 9781032533520 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Fabian Broeker

Opis

Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps fit into Berlin’s unique dating culture and brand of intimacy, and form a tangible nucleus around which users navigate dating rituals, romantic biographies, and digitally mediated intimacies within city space.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Anchored Offline/Online: Approaches to the Digital Digital Ethnography; 2. Affordances and Imaginaries; 3. Simon is 883 Kilometres Away: Navigating City Spaces; 4. Dating Culture and Narrativization; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Fabian Broeker is a doctoral researcher at King’s College London’s Department of Culture, Media, and Creative Industries. His research interests encompass digital anthropology, intimacy and new media.