{"title":"More than the selfie","authors":"Riki Thompson","doi":"10.1075/jls.20005.tho","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Success in the digital dating world is often dependent on an individual’s ability to negotiate the\n affordances and constraints of platforms (Bucher &\n Helmond 2017) while effectively expressing who one is and what they are looking for. Since mononormativity is the\n dominant script that underpins ideals of romantic love and intimate relations in our society (Wolkomir 2019), for the millions who ascribe to non-monogamy, profile creation is often complicated by dating platform\n interfaces and relationship orientations. This research takes a critical multimodal discourse approach (Machin 2016, Milani 2013) to examine the interplay between\n various semiotic modes in meaning making about sexual normativities (Motschenbacher\n 2019) in digital dating contexts, and considers how people navigating non-traditional relationship orientations\n negotiate discourse in digital dating contexts to demonstrate how discourse and design have the ability to empower and marginalize\n users (Sun 2020) as well maintain cultural norms (Wachter-Boettcher 2017) about emotional bonding and sexuality.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20005.tho","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Success in the digital dating world is often dependent on an individual’s ability to negotiate the
affordances and constraints of platforms (Bucher &
Helmond 2017) while effectively expressing who one is and what they are looking for. Since mononormativity is the
dominant script that underpins ideals of romantic love and intimate relations in our society (Wolkomir 2019), for the millions who ascribe to non-monogamy, profile creation is often complicated by dating platform
interfaces and relationship orientations. This research takes a critical multimodal discourse approach (Machin 2016, Milani 2013) to examine the interplay between
various semiotic modes in meaning making about sexual normativities (Motschenbacher
2019) in digital dating contexts, and considers how people navigating non-traditional relationship orientations
negotiate discourse in digital dating contexts to demonstrate how discourse and design have the ability to empower and marginalize
users (Sun 2020) as well maintain cultural norms (Wachter-Boettcher 2017) about emotional bonding and sexuality.