Talking Through Race: Two Raced Women’s Tinder Stories

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2021-06-11 DOI:10.1093/CCC/TCAB030

Jin Lee

引用次数: 3

Abstract

While as an epitome of contemporary pairing culture Tinder has been reported as dangerous for its association with sex-centered post-feminist culture, including hook ups and toxic masculinity, an original case study exploring women of color (WOC) in the culture has not been undertaken yet. By inviting WOC Tinder users into an ethnographic study, I show the instability of race that mediates their lived experiences in line with gender in the culture of sexual intimacy. I focus on two female study participants living in the United States: Greek–Black biracial Betty and Korean-Asian Rose. By examining their processes of revisiting their Tinder episodes and developing their conclusive stories vis-à-vis their identities, I argue that they perform their race processed through ongoing negotiation with the social systems and their personal lived experiences, to respond to racialization, gendering, and sexualization in the pairing culture, mediated by the image-centered dating app, Tinder.

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谈论种族:两个赛跑女性的Tinder故事

作为当代结对文化的一个缩影，Tinder被认为是危险的，因为它与以性为中心的后女权主义文化有联系，包括勾搭和有毒的男子气概，但一项探索有色人种女性(WOC)在这种文化中的原始案例研究尚未开展。通过邀请WOC Tinder用户进行人种学研究，我展示了种族的不稳定性，这种不稳定性调解了他们在性亲密文化中与性别一致的生活经历。我关注的是生活在美国的两位女性研究参与者:希腊裔黑人混血儿贝蒂和韩裔亚裔罗斯。通过研究他们重新审视自己在Tinder上的经历，并通过-à-vis自己的身份发展结论性故事的过程，我认为，他们通过与社会系统和个人生活经历的持续谈判来处理自己的种族问题，以回应以图像为中心的约会应用Tinder介导的配对文化中的种族化、性别化和性化。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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