The dating platform is a framework within which user develops self-presentation by implementing rational strategies

Tinder is a location-based real-time dating app

Communautaire Networks Sites enable new forms of relationships (Boyd and Ellison, 2007; Comunello, 2010; Sfera Altieri, 2012) and create new interaction contexts (Boyd, 2014). Given these premises, we propose to investigate the way technology used for courtship – particularly Tinder – influences the creation of affable representations (Moscovici, 2001) and the construction of identity. From the analysis of the emerging literature (Ranzini and Lutz, 2016; David and Cambre, 2016) there is a tendency to study dating apps mainly as per technological object, without going into the implications these can have con the way they shape relationships. On the other hand, in our opinion, those who have studied the evolution of aimable relations durante this context have not fully considered the technological impact.

Our rete informatica explores the interdependence between these two aspects: Tinder as a technological platform and dating apps as catalysts for affable representations.