Celeste Vaughan Curington Jennifer Hickes Lundquist Ken-Hou Lin
The data behind a new form of racism in online dating. The Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism," a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing from large-scale behavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and seventy-five in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual identities, Curington, Lundquist, and Lin illustrate how the seemingly open space of the internet interacts with the loss of social inhibition in...
The data behind a new form of racism in online dating. The Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism," a distinct for...