The New Laws of Love. Marie Bergström. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Marie Bergström
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
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isbn: 9781509543533
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in 2009 that targeted gay men. Mobile features included geolocation, which served to identify the user’s location and to display active profiles of other users nearby. Grindr provided the template for similar apps that target heterosexuals; Blendr launched in 2011, Tinder in 2012, and the French venture Happn in 2014. Facing competition from the new mobile services and forced to adapt to a variety of devices – computers, smartphones, and tablets – the traditional sites have since moved on to develop their own mobile versions. Match, for example, is primarily accessed today through its app interface: 63% of the European users who created an account on the platform in 2019 did so by using a mobile device, and only 37% connected through the website.3 Online dating through the web has become a minority practice, except among older users.

      These apps have changed online dating to some extent. The former text-based interfaces have been superseded by visual content in which photography takes precedence over the written word. Nevertheless, today’s applications, too, are descendants of earlier matchmaking services. This legacy is reflected not only in platform features (which are still based on “profiles,” stated selection criteria, and written communication), but also in the identity of companies behind the applications. Tinder, for instance (Figure 1.6), first went under the name Matchbox and received initial funding from a startup incubator called Hatch Labs and financed by InterActiveCorp (IAC), a company that owns a large number of dating sites such as Match. One can say that mediated dating forms a family tree: matrimonial agencies were the first to publish personal ads; publishers of classifieds as well as BBS and Minitel operators, launched many of the earliest dating sites; and dating site companies have largely financed and developed dating apps.

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      The examination of the origins of online dating also shows how economic considerations have been a constant threat to the ideal of romantic love. While many of the writings on online dating consider the current situation a critical moment in the encroachment of late capitalism on the sphere of intimacy, a historical perspective indicates that the same fears have been voiced continuously throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The allegedly contemporary crisis of love epitomized by online dating turns out to be a “permanent crisis” of romantic love, to borrow a term from French anthropologist Mélanie Gourarier (2017). Rather than heralding the end of love, the assertion that marriage and committed relationships are under threat contributes to reaffirming these norms, as it is a constant reminder, to contemporaries, of what love is and is not – in other words, it is a normative assertion about what love should be. The indignation and the social criticism that has surrounded matchmaking services from the outset do not testify to the weakening of romantic love, but rather to the historical and continuing strength of this ideal.

      1  1 Todd Krieger, 1995. Love and money. Wired, 3, September 3. https://www.wired.com/1995/09/love-and-money.

      2  2 David Gelles, 2011. Inside Match.com. Financial Times, July 29. https://www.ft.com/content/f31cae04-b8ca-11e0-8206-00144feabdc0.

      3  3 Source: Meetic Group Databases (Europe, 2019, Meetic Group).

      4  4 IAC, 2019. Report of Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. https://ir.iac.com/static-files/329f9793-7b24-4684-86c3-935c0c2a7f98.

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