TY - JOUR
T1 - Simply more than swiping left
T2 - A critical analysis of toxic masculine performances on Tinder Nightmares
AU - Hess, Aaron
AU - Flores, Carlos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - Launching in September 2012, Tinder has become a popular phenomenon in the world of online dating and hookup culture. Simultaneously, it carries notorious reputation for being home to hypersexual and toxic masculine expressions. This analysis examines Tinder Nightmares, an Instagram page featuring failed attempts at hooking up, as a site that promotes counter-disciplining the deliberate toxic masculine performances on Tinder. Through a Foucauldian lens, we argue that this page delimits the toxic masculine performances through the outward display of crude performances, the showcasing of witty responses from Tinder users, and the extension of counter-discipline through digital circulation practices on the page. Given that Tinder is a location-aware app, the discipline offered through Tinder Nightmares surfaces in interpersonal, physical, and networked spaces, as Tinder users become multiply implicated public subjects of shame across media platforms.
AB - Launching in September 2012, Tinder has become a popular phenomenon in the world of online dating and hookup culture. Simultaneously, it carries notorious reputation for being home to hypersexual and toxic masculine expressions. This analysis examines Tinder Nightmares, an Instagram page featuring failed attempts at hooking up, as a site that promotes counter-disciplining the deliberate toxic masculine performances on Tinder. Through a Foucauldian lens, we argue that this page delimits the toxic masculine performances through the outward display of crude performances, the showcasing of witty responses from Tinder users, and the extension of counter-discipline through digital circulation practices on the page. Given that Tinder is a location-aware app, the discipline offered through Tinder Nightmares surfaces in interpersonal, physical, and networked spaces, as Tinder users become multiply implicated public subjects of shame across media platforms.
KW - Discipline
KW - Instagram
KW - Tinder
KW - gender
KW - locative technologies
KW - mobile dating
KW - social media
KW - toxic masculinity
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U2 - 10.1177/1461444816681540
DO - 10.1177/1461444816681540
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043587511
SN - 1461-4448
VL - 20
SP - 1085
EP - 1102
JO - New Media and Society
JF - New Media and Society
IS - 3
ER -