skip to main content
research-article
Best Paper

Computer-Mediated Consent to Sex: The Context of Tinder

Published:22 April 2021Publication History
Skip Abstract Section

Abstract

This paper reports an interview study about how consent to sexual activity is computer-mediated. The study's context of online dating is chosen due to the prevalence of sexual violence, or nonconsensual sexual activity, that is associated with dating app-use. Participants (n=19) represent a range of gender identities and sexual orientations, and predominantly used the dating app Tinder. Findings reveal two computer-mediated consent processes: consent signaling and affirmative consent. With consent signaling, users employed Tinder's interface to infer and imply agreement to sex without any explicit confirmation before making sexual advances in-person. With affirmative consent, users employed the interface to establish patterns of overt discourse around sex and consent across online and offline modalities. The paper elucidates shortcomings of both computer-mediated consent processes that leave users susceptible to sexual violence and envisions dating apps as potential sexual violence prevention solutions if deliberately designed to mediate consent exchange.

References

  1. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J Jackson, Nova Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Md Rashidujjaman Rifat, A S M Rizvi, Shamir Ahmed, and Rifat Sabbir Mansur. 2014. Protibadi: A platform for fighting sexual harassment in urban Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2695--2704.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  2. K Albury, P Byron, A McCosker, T Pym, J Walshe, K Race, and C Dietzel. 2019. Safety, risk and wellbeing on dating apps: Final report.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. Kath Albury, Anthony McCosker, Tinonee Pym, and Paul Byron. 2020. Dating apps as public health ?problems': cautionary tales and vernacular pedagogies in news media. Heal. Sociol. Rev. (2020), 1--17.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. Mohammed Eunus Ali, Shabnam Basera Rishta, Lazima Ansari, Tanzima Hashem, and Ahamad Imtiaz Khan. 2015. SafeStreet: empowering women against street harassment using a privacy-aware location based application. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 1--4.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  5. Nazanin Andalibi, Oliver L Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, and Andrea Forte. 2016. Understanding social media disclosures of sexual abuse through the lenses of support seeking and anonymity. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 3906--3918.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  6. M Anderson, E A Vogels, and E Turner. 2020. The virtues and downsides of online dating. Pew Res. Cent. report. Retrieved May 1, (2020), 2020.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  7. Albert Bandura. 2001. Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication. Media Psychol. 3, 3 (August 2001), 265--299. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1207/S1532785XMEP0303_03Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  8. Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell. 2011. Pleasure is your birthright: digitally enabled designer sex toys as a case of third-wave HCI. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, 257--266.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  9. Shaowen Bardzell. 2010. Feminist HCI: taking stock and outlining an agenda for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 1301--1310.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  10. Kathleen C Basile, Sarah DeGue, Kathryn Jones, Kimberley Freire, Jenny Dills, Sharon G Smith, and Jerris L Raiford. 2016. STOP SV: A technical package to prevent sexual violence. (2016).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  11. Kathleen C Basile, Sharon G Smith, Matthew Breiding, Michele C Black, and Reshma R Mahendra. 2014. Sexual violence surveillance: Uniform definitions and recommended data elements. Version 2.0. (2014).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  12. Jeremy Birnholtz, Shruta Rawat, Richa Vashista, Dicky Baruah, Alpana Dange, and Anne-Marie Boyer. 2020. Layers of Marginality: An Exploration of Visibility, Impressions, and Cultural Context on Geospatial Apps for Men Who Have Sex With Men in Mumbai, India. Soc. Media+ Soc. 6, 2 (2020), 2056305120913995.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  13. Jeremy Birnholtz, Irina Shklovski, Mark Handel, and Eran Toch. 2015. Let's talk about sex (Apps), CSCW. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 283--288.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  14. Ginette C. Blackhart, Jennifer Fitzpatrick, and Jessica Williamson. 2014. Dispositional factors predicting use of online dating sites and behaviors related to online dating. Comput. Human Behav. 33, (2014), 113--118. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.022Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  15. Courtney Blackwell, Jeremy Birnholtz, and Charles Abbott. 2014. Seeing and being seen: Co-situation and impression formation using Grindr, a location-aware gay dating app. New Media Soc. (2014), 1--20. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814521595Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  16. Lindsay Blackwell, Nicole Ellison, Natasha Elliott-Deflo, and Raz Schwartz. 2019. Harassment in social virtual reality: Challenges for platform governance. Proc. ACM Human-Computer Interact. 3, CSCW (2019), 1--25.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  17. Jan Blom, Divya Viswanathan, Mirjana Spasojevic, Janet Go, Karthik Acharya, and Robert Ahonius. 2010. Fear and the city: role of mobile services in harnessing safety and security in urban use contexts. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1841--1850.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  18. Mark Blythe and Mark Jones. 2004. Human computer (sexual) interactions. interactions 11, 5 (2004), 75--76.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  19. Matthew Joseph Breiding, Jieru Chen, and Mikel L Walters. 2013. The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS); 2010 findings on victimization by sexual orientation. (2013).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  20. Johanna Brewer, Joseph'Jofish' Kaye, Amanda Williams, and Susan Wyche. 2006. Sexual interactions: why we should talk about sex in HCI. In CHI'06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1695--1698.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  21. Robert J Brym and Rhonda L Lenton. 2001. Love Online: A Report on Digital Dating in Canada. Toronto, Canada: MSN. CA.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  22. Melissa Burkett and Karine Hamilton. 2012. Postfeminist sexual agency: Young women's negotiations of sexual consent. Sexualities 15, 7 (October 2012), 815--833. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460712454076Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  23. California State Legislature. 2014. SB-967 Student safety: sexual assault. Retrieved from https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB967Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  24. Erin A Casey and Taryn P Lindhorst. 2009. Toward a multi-level, ecological approach to the primary prevention of sexual assault: Prevention in peer and community contexts. Trauma, Violence, Abus. 10, 2 (2009), 91--114.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  25. Edmond Pui Hang Choi, Janet Yuen Ha Wong, and Daniel Yee Tak Fong. 2018. An emerging risk factor of sexual abuse: the use of smartphone dating applications. Sex. Abus. 30, 4 (2018), 343--366.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  26. Francesca Comunello, Lorenza Parisi, and Francesca Ieracitano. 2020. Negotiating gender scripts in mobile dating apps: between affordances, usage norms and practices. Information, Commun. Soc. (2020), 1--17.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  27. Elena Francesca Corriero and Stephanie Tom Tong. 2016. Managing uncertainty in mobile dating applications: Goals, concerns of use, and information seeking in Grindr. Mob. Media Commun. 4, 1 (2016), 121--141.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  28. Danielle Couch and Pranee Liamputtong. 2008. Online dating and mating: The use of the internet to meet sexual partners. Qual.Health Res 18, 2 (2008), 268--279. DOI:https://doi.org/18/2/268 [pii];10.1177/1049732307312832 [doi]Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  29. Keith Cousins and Brian Edwards. How to Report a Sexual Assault to a Dating App. ProPublica.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  30. Sarah DeGue, Thomas R Simon, Kathleen C Basile, Sue Lin Yee, Karen Lang, and Howard Spivak. 2012. Moving forward by looking back: Reflecting on a decade of CDC's work in sexual violence prevention, 2000-2010. J. Women's Heal. 21, 12 (2012), 1211--1218.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  31. Jill P Dimond, Michaelanne Dye, Daphne LaRose, and Amy S Bruckman. 2013. Hollaback! The role of storytelling online in a social movement organization. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 477--490.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  32. Judith Donath. 2007. Signals in social supernets. J. Comput. Commun. 13, 1 (2007), 231--251. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083--6101.2007.00394.xGoogle ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  33. Judith Donath. 2007. Signals, cues and meaning. Personal communication.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  34. Stefanie Duguay, Jean Burgess, and Nicolas Suzor. 2020. Queer women's experiences of patchwork platform governance on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine. Convergence 26, 2 (2020), 237--252.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  35. Anna Eaglin and Shaowen Bardzell. 2011. Sex toys and designing for sexual wellness. In CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1837--1842.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  36. Ashley K Fansher and Sara Eckinger. 2020. Tinder Tales: An Exploratory Study of Online Dating Users and Their Most Interesting Stories. Deviant Behav. (2020), 1--15.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  37. Julia R Fernandez and Jeremy Birnholtz. 2019. " I Don't Want Them to Not Know" Investigating Decisions to Disclose Transgender Identity on Dating Platforms. Proc. ACM Human-Computer Interact. 3, CSCW (2019), 1--21.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  38. Andrew T Fiore and Judith S Donath. 2004. Online Personals: An Overview. In CHI'04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in ?, 1395--1398. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/985921.986073Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  39. Colin Fitzpatrick and Jeremy Birnholtz. 2018. "I Shut the Door": Interactions, tensions, and negotiations from a location-based social app. New Media Soc. 20, 7 (2018), 2469--2488.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  40. Hannah Frith and Celia Kitzinger. 2001. Reformulating Sexual Script Theory. Theory Psychol. 11, 2 (April 2001), 209--232. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354301112004Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  41. Jeana H Frost, Zoe Chance, Michael I Norton, and Dan Ariely. 2008. People are experience goods: Improving online dating with virtual dates. J. Interact. Mark. 22, 1 (2008), 51--61.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  42. Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Christina Pallitto, Karen Devries, Heidi Stöckl, Charlotte Watts, and Naeema Abrahams. 2013. Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence. World Health Organization.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  43. Jennifer L. Gibbs, Nicole B. Ellison, and Rebecca D. Heino. 2006. Self-presentation in online personals: The role of anticipated future interaction, self-disclosure, and perceived success in internet dating. Communic. Res. 33, 2 (2006), 152--177. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650205285368Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  44. Jennifer L Gibbs, Nicole B Ellison, and Chih-Hui Lai. 2011. First comes love, then comes google: An investigation of uncertainty reduction strategies and self-disclosure in online dating. Communic. Res. 38, December 2010 (2011), 70--100. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650210377091Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  45. Louisa Gilbert, Aaron L Sarvet, Melanie Wall, Kate Walsh, Leigh Reardon, Patrick Wilson, John Santelli, Shamus Khan, Martie Thompson, Jennifer S Hirsch, and others. 2019. Situational contexts and risk factors associated with incapacitated and nonincapacitated sexual assaults among college women. J. Women's Heal. 28, 2 (2019), 185--193.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  46. Rosalie Gillett. 2018. Intimate intrusions online: Studying the normalisation of abuse in dating apps. In Women's Studies International Forum, 212--219.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  47. Erving Goffman. 1978. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York, NY: Harmondsworth.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  48. Jeffrey A Hall, Namkee Park, Hayeon Song, and Michael J Cody. 2010. Strategic misrepresentation in online dating: The effects of gender, self-monitoring, and personality traits. J. Soc. Pers. Relat. 27, 1 (2010), 117--135. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407509349633Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  49. Jeffrey T. Hancock, Catalina Toma, and Nicole Ellison. 2007. The truth about lying in online dating profiles. In CHI Proceedings, 449--452. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240697Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  50. Jeffrey T. Hancock and Catalina L. Toma. 2009. Putting your best face forward: The accuracy of online dating photographs. J. Commun. 59, 2 (2009), 367--386. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01420.xGoogle ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  51. Mark J Handel and Irina Shklovski. 2012. Disclosure, ambiguity and risk reduction in real-time dating sites. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work, 175--178.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  52. L Camille Hebert. 2007. Why Don't Reasonable Women Complain about Sexual Harassment. Ind. LJ 82, (2007), 711.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  53. Nicola Henry and Anastasia Powell. 2018. Technology-facilitated sexual violence: A literature review of empirical research. Trauma, violence, Abus. 19, 2 (2018), 195--208.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  54. Jennifer S Hirsch, Shamus R Khan, Alexander Wamboldt, and Claude A Mellins. 2019. Social dimensions of sexual consent among cisgender heterosexual college students: insights from ethnographic research. J. Adolesc. Heal. 64, 1 (2019), 26--35.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  55. Owen Jacques. Sexual predators using Tinder, dating apps to find victims, survivors and police warn. ABC News.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  56. Mara et al James, Sandy E.; Herman, Jody L; Rankin, Susan; Keisling. 2015. The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. Natl. Cent. Transgender Equal. (2015), 302.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  57. Shagun Jhaver, Sucheta Ghoshal, Amy Bruckman, and Eric Gilbert. 2018. Online harassment and content moderation: The case of blocklists. ACM Trans. Comput. Interact. 25, 2 (2018), 1--33.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  58. Kristen N Jozkowski. 2015. Barriers to affirmative consent policies and the need for affirmative sexuality. U. Pac. L. Rev. 47, (2015), 741.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  59. Gopinaath Kannabiran, Alex A Ahmed, Matthew Wood, Madeline Balaam, Joshua G Tanenbaum, Shaowen Bardzell, and Jeffrey Bardzell. 2018. Design for sexual wellbeing in HCI. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1--7.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  60. Gopinaath Kannabiran, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Shaowen Bardzell. 2011. How HCI talks about sexuality: discursive strategies, blind spots, and opportunities for future research. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 695--704.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  61. F J F Keenan. 2015. University ethics: How colleges can build and benefit from a culture of ethics. Rowman & Littlefield.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  62. Shamus R Khan, Jennifer S Hirsch, Alexander Wambold, and Claude A Mellins. 2018. "I Didn't Want To Be'That Girl"': The Social Risks of Labeling, Telling, and Reporting Sexual Assault. Sociol. Sci. 5, (2018), 432--460.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  63. Dawn Kuczwara. 2018. The Bumble Bizz App Can Help Businesses Network. Business News Daily.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  64. Raphael J Landovitz, Chi-Hong Tseng, Matthew Weissman, Michael Haymer, Brett Mendenhall, Kathryn Rogers, Rosemary Veniegas, Pamina M Gorbach, Cathy J Reback, and Steven Shoptaw. 2013. Epidemiology, sexual risk behavior, and HIV prevention practices of men who have sex with men using GRINDR in Los Angeles, California. J. Urban Heal. 90, 4 (2013), 729--739.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  65. LegalFling. Get explicit about sexual consent.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  66. Christina Masden and W Keith Edwards. 2015. Understanding the role of community in online dating. In CHI Proceedings, 535--544. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702417Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  67. Nabila Rezwana Mirza, Shareen Mahmud, Prosonna Hossain Nabila, and Nova Ahmed. 2016. Poster: Protibaadi: An Extended Solution to Deal with Sexual Harassment. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Companion, 59.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  68. Manisha Mohan, Misha Sra, and Chris Schmandt. 2017. Technological interventions to detect, communicate and deter sexual assault. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 126--129.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  69. Charlene L Muehlenhard, Terry P Humphreys, Kristen N Jozkowski, and Zoë D Peterson. 2016. The complexities of sexual consent among college students: A conceptual and empirical review. J. Sex Res. 53, 4-5 (2016), 457--487.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  70. Elizabeth Naismith Picciani. He Sexually Assaulted Her After They Met on Bumble. Then She Saw Him on Tinder. Then Hinge. ProPublica. Retrieved May 31, 2020 from https://www.propublica.org/article/he-sexually-assaulted-her-after-they-met-on-bumble-then-she-saw-him-on-tinder-then-hingeGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar
  71. Josef Nguyen and Bonnie Ruberg. 2020. Challenges of Designing Consent: Consent Mechanics in Video Games as Models for Interactive User Agency. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1--13.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  72. Fayika Farhat Nova, M D Rashidujjaman Rifat, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Shion Guha. 2019. Online sexual harassment over anonymous social media in Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 1--12.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  73. Rebecca R Ortiz and Autumn Shafer. 2018. Unblurring the lines of sexual consent with a college student-driven sexual consent education campaign. J. Am. Coll. Heal. 66, 6 (2018), 450--456.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  74. Jessica A Pater, Moon K Kim, Elizabeth D Mynatt, and Casey Fiesler. 2016. Characterizations of online harassment: Comparing policies across social media platforms. In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on supporting group work, 369--374.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  75. Jonathan Petrychyn, Diana C Parry, and Corey W Johnson. 2020. Building community, one swipe at a time: hook-up apps and the production of intimate publics between women. Heal. Sociol. Rev. (2020), 1--15.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  76. Olivia Petter. 2018. WHY CONSENT APPS DON'T WORK, ACCORDING TO CRIMINAL LAWYERS. The Independent.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  77. John R Porter, Kiley Sobel, Sarah E Fox, Cynthia L Bennett, and Julie A Kientz. 2017. Filtered out: Disability disclosure practices in online dating communities. Proc. ACM Human-Computer Interact. 1, CSCW (2017), 87.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  78. Anastasia Powell and Nicola Henry. 2019. Technology-facilitated sexual violence victimization: Results from an online survey of Australian adults. J. Interpers. Violence 34, 17 (2019), 3637--3665.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  79. Urszula Pruchniewska. 2020. "I Like That It's My Choice a Couple Different Times": Gender, Affordances, and User Experience on Bumble Dating. Int. J. Commun. 14, (2020), 18.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  80. Anjana Rajan, Lucy Qin, David W Archer, Dan Boneh, Tancrede Lepoint, and Mayank Varia. 2018. Callisto: A cryptographic approach to detecting serial perpetrators of sexual misconduct. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 1--4.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  81. Afsaneh Razi, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, and Pamela J Wisniewski. 2020. Let's Talk about Sext: How Adolescents Seek Support and Advice about Their Online Sexual Experiences. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1--13.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  82. H Jonathon Rendina, Ruben H Jimenez, Christian Grov, Ana Ventuneac, and Jeffrey T Parsons. 2014. Patterns of lifetime and recent HIV testing among men who have sex with men in New York City who use Grindr. AIDS Behav. 18, 1 (2014), 41--49.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  83. Eric Rice, Ian Holloway, Hailey Winetrobe, Harmony Rhoades, Anamika Barman-Adhikari, Jeremy Gibbs, Adam Carranza, David Dent, Shannon Dunlap, and others. 2012. Sex risk among young men who have sex with men who use Grindr, a smartphone geosocial networking application. J. AIDS Clin. Res. Suppl. 4 (2012).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  84. Diane Richardson. 2000. Constructing sexual citizenship: theorizing sexual rights. Crit. Soc. Policy 20, 1 (February 2000), 105--135. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/026101830002000105Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  85. Lawrence Ross. 2016. Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses. Macmillan.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  86. Janine Rowse, Caroline Bolt, and Sanjeev Gaya. 2020. Swipe right: the emergence of dating-app facilitated sexual assault. A descriptive retrospective audit of forensic examination caseload in an Australian metropolitan service. Forensic Sci. Med. Pathol. (2020), 1--7.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  87. Jennifer D Rubin, Lindsay Blackwell, and Terri D Conley. 2020. Fragile Masculinity: Men, Gender, and Online Harassment. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1--14.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  88. Muhammad Yasir Sarosh, Muhammad Abdullah Yousaf, Mair Muteeb Javed, and Suleman Shahid. 2016. Mehfoozaurat: Transforming smart phones into women safety devices against harassment. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 1--4.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  89. Christine Satchell and Marcus Foth. 2010. Fear and danger in nocturnal urban environments. In Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, 380--383.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  90. Christine Satchell and Marcus Foth. 2011. Welcome to the jungle: HCI after dark. In CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 753--762.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  91. Stephen J Schulhofer. 2015. Consent: What It Means and Why It's Time to Require It. U. Pac. L. Rev. 47, (2015), 665.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  92. Gilla K. Shapiro, Ovidiu Tatar, Arielle Sutton, William Fisher, Anila Naz, Samara Perez, and Zeev Rosberger. 2017. Correlates of Tinder Use and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Young Adults. Cyberpsychology, Behav. Soc. Netw. 20, 12 (December 2017), 727--734. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2017.0279Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  93. Frances Shaw. 2016. "Bitch I said hi": The Bye Felipe campaign and discursive activism in mobile dating apps. Soc. Media+ Soc. 2, 4 (2016), 2056305116672889.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  94. William Simon and John H. Gagnon. 1986. Sexual scripts: Permanence and change. Arch. Sex. Behav. 15, 2 (April 1986), 97--120. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01542219Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  95. Sharon Smith, Jieru Chen, Kathleen Basile, Leah Gilbert, Melissa Merrick, Nimesh Patel, Margie Walling, and Anurag Jain. 2016. National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010--2012 State Report. (2016).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  96. Sharon G Smith, Xinjian Zhang, Kathleen C Basile, Melissa T Merrick, Jing Wang, Marcie-jo Kresnow, and Jieru Chen. 2018. The national intimate partner and sexual violence survey: 2015 data brief--updated release. (2018).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  97. Robert Sparrow. 2017. Robots, rape, and representation. Int. J. Soc. Robot. 9, 4 (2017), 465--477.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  98. Laura Stampler. Inside Tinder: Meet the Guys Who Turned Dating Into an Addiction. Time. Retrieved May 31, 2020 from https://time.com/4837/tinder-meet-the-guys-who-turneddating-into-an-addiction/Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  99. Anselm Strauss and Juliet M Corbin. 1990. Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Sage Publications, Inc.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  100. Norman Makoto Su, Amanda Lazar, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Shaowen Bardzell. 2019. Of dolls and men: Anticipating sexual intimacy with robots. ACM Trans. Comput. Interact. 26, 3 (2019), 1--35.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  101. John P Sullins. 2012. Robots, love, and sex: the ethics of building a love machine. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. 3, 4 (2012), 398--409.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  102. Sindy R. Sumter, Laura Vandenbosch, and Loes Ligtenberg. 2017. Love me Tinder: Untangling emerging adults' motivations for using the dating application Tinder. Telemat. Informatics 34, 1 (2017), 67--78. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2016.04.009Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  103. Loren Terveen and David W McDonald. 2005. Social matching: A framework and research agenda. ACM Trans. Comput. Interact. 12, 3 (2005), 401--434.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  104. Elisabeth Timmermans and Elien De Caluwé. 2017. Development and Validation of the Tinder Motives Scale (TMS). Comput. Human Behav. 70, (2017), 341--350. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.028Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  105. Catalina L. Toma and Jeffrey T. Hancock. 2010. Looks and lies: The role of physical attractiveness in online dating delf-presentation and deception. Communic. Res. 37, 3 (2010), 335--351. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650209356437Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  106. Catalina L Toma and Jeffrey T Hancock. 2010. Reading between the lines: linguistic cues to deception in online dating profiles. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 5--8.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  107. Giovanni Maria Troiano, Matthew Wood, and Casper Harteveld. 2020. " And This, Kids, Is How I Met Your Mother": Consumerist, Mundane, and Uncanny Futures with Sex Robots. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1--17.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  108. UK National Crime Agency. 2016. Emerging new threat in online dating: Initial trends in internet dating-initiated serious sexual assaults. National Crime Agency London, England. Retrieved from https://trends.ifla.org/node/425Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  109. Jessica Vitak, Kalyani Chadha, Linda Steiner, and Zahra Ashktorab. 2017. Identifying women's experiences with and strategies for mitigating negative effects of online harassment. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1231--1245.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  110. Mark Warner, Andreas Gutmann, M Angela Sasse, and Ann Blandford. 2018. Privacy unraveling around explicit HIV status disclosure fields in the online geosocial hookup app Grindr. Proc. ACM human-computer Interact. 2, CSCW (2018), 1--22.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  111. Mark Warner, Juan F Maestre, Jo Gibbs, Chia-Fang Chung, and Ann Blandford. 2019. Signal Appropriation of Explicit HIV Status Disclosure Fields in Sex-Social Apps used by Gay and Bisexual Men. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1--15.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  112. Edward G Whipple and Eileen G Sullivan. 1998. Greek Letter Organizations: Communities of Learners?. New Dir. Student Serv. 81, (1998), 7--18.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  113. Monica T. Whitty. 2008. Revealing the "real" me, searching for the "actual" you: Presentations of self on an internet dating site. Comput. Human Behav. 24, 4 (2008), 1707--1723. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2007.07.002Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  114. Chad Van De Wiele and Stephanie Tom Tong. 2014. Breaking boundaries: The uses & gratifications of Grindr. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing, 619--630.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  115. Hailey Winetrobe, Eric Rice, Jose Bauermeister, Robin Petering, and Ian W Holloway. 2014. Associations of unprotected anal intercourse with Grindr-met partners among Grindr-using young men who have sex with men in Los Angeles. AIDS Care 26, 10 (2014), 1303--1308.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  116. Matthew Wood, Gavin Wood, and Madeline Balaam. 2015. Talk about sex: Designing games to facilitate healthy discussions around sex. In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 795--798.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  117. Matthew Wood, Gavin Wood, and Madeline Balaam. 2017. Sex talk: designing for sexual health with adolescents. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 137--147.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  118. Shangwei Wu and Janelle Ward. 2020. Looking for "interesting people": Chinese gay men's exploration of relationship development on dating apps. Mob. Media Commun. 8, 3 (2020), 342--359.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCross RefCross Ref
  119. Doug Zytko, Sukeshini A Grandhi, and Quentin Jones. 2016. The coaches said...what?: Analysis of online dating strategies recommended by dating coaches. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work, 385--397. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2957276.2957287Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  120. Douglas Zytko, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, and Quentin Jones. 2014. Impression management struggles in online dating. In Proceedings of the 18th international conference on supporting group work, 53--62. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2660398.2660410Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  121. Douglas Zytko, Sukeshini A Grandhi, and Quentin Jones. 2015. Frustrations with Pursuing Casual Encounters through Online Dating. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1935--1940.Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  122. Douglas Zytko, Sukeshini A Grandhi, and Quentin Jones. 2016. Online dating coaches' user evaluation strategies. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892482Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  123. Douglas Zytko, Victor Regalado, Nicholas Furlo, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, and Quentin Jones. 2020. Supporting Women in Online Dating with a Messaging Interface that Improves their Face-to-Face Meeting Decisions. Proc. ACM Human-Computer Interact. 4, CSCW2 (2020). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3415208Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  124. Sexual consent. Planned Parenthood. Retrieved May 31, 2020 from https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/relationships/sexual-consentGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar
  125. What Consent Looks Like. RAINN. Retrieved May 31, 2020 from https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consentGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar
  126. Tinder Introduces Safety-Focused Updates. Tinder Blog. Retrieved May 31, 2020 from https://blog.gotinder.com/tinder-introduces-safety-updates/Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  127. Bumble BFF. Retrieved November 30, 2019 from https://bumble.com/bffGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar

Index Terms

  1. Computer-Mediated Consent to Sex: The Context of Tinder

          Recommendations

          Comments

          Login options

          Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

          Sign in

          Full Access

          • Published in

            cover image Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
            Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction  Volume 5, Issue CSCW1
            CSCW
            April 2021
            5016 pages
            EISSN:2573-0142
            DOI:10.1145/3460939
            Issue’s Table of Contents

            Copyright © 2021 ACM

            Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

            Publisher

            Association for Computing Machinery

            New York, NY, United States

            Publication History

            • Published: 22 April 2021
            Published in pacmhci Volume 5, Issue CSCW1

            Permissions

            Request permissions about this article.

            Request Permissions

            Check for updates

            Qualifiers

            • research-article

          PDF Format

          View or Download as a PDF file.

          PDF

          eReader

          View online with eReader.

          eReader