Dating in the time of “relational filter bubbles”: exploring imaginaries, perceptions and tactics of Italian dating app users
Lorenza Parisi, Francesca Comunello - In this paper, we address algorithmic imaginary, perception and tactics of Italian dating apps users. Little attention has hitherto been devoted to the ways in which the algorithms employed by mobile dating platforms (to rate users, to manage user visibility, to arrange results) might contrast, or enhance, people’s homophily.