On the other hand, concerns of security and recognition by known others persisted in the happn app. In addition, the location overlap data was useful in allowing users to estimate convenience in meeting and establish common ground. Moreover, people assigned significant meaning to the minimal cues available from the overlap data. In particular, the warranting power of the device-driven location data was accepted as valuable, and generated little concern about misrepresentation. Building on Uncertainty Reduction Theory, we show the various outcomes of the crossed paths and how they play a role in uncertainty reduction. We conducted qualitative interviews with 15 happn users to understand how people make sense of crossed paths, and assess the meanings they assign to these location overlaps. A recent mobile dating application, happn, adds a temporal dimension to location-based dating, showing users the number of times that they crossed path with each other, as well as the location of the most recent overlap. Many location-based dating applications allow users to search for potential matches who are physically proximate. 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. 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. 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. Simultaneously, it carries notorious reputation for being home to hypersexual and toxic masculine expressions. Launching in September, Tinder has become a popular phenomenon in the world of online dating and hookup culture.
Simply more than swiping left: A critical analysis of toxic masculine performances on Tinder Nightmares. We show how practices of calling for help and reacting to help calls can be affected by such a system and affect the management of the visibility and validity of SOS calls, implying a need for further negotiation in situations where communication is sensitive and technically restrained. In this context, we found that the sensitivity that was introduced by the adversarial nature of the situation posed unexpected challenges for our approach, as giving away one's location in the immediate danger of a terrorist attack became an issue both for first responders and the affected people in the area. This article investigates the use of an ad-hoc system for sending SOS signals in a large-scale exercise that simulated a terrorist attack. Ad-hoc assemblages of communication technology have the potential to bridge such breakdowns. The following themes are outlined: The availability of ICT services can be severely disrupted in the aftermath of disasters. A sample of gay men was interviewed and the data were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. We discuss theoretical and design implications of how spatial selves affect this process.