18 Conclusion: Private Matters The machinery of matching Private versus public A history of privatized life Dating as an island Domesticity and discretion Notes
19 Bibliography
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1. Front page of The Matrimonial News and Special Advertiser (February, 1877...Figure 1.2. Newspaper publicity for the “computer dating” agency Compatibility...Figure 1.3. Interface of the BBS MatchmakerFigure 1.4. Interface of the Minitel messaging system ULLAFigure 1.5. Interface of Match.com (year 2000)Figure 1.6. Interface of Tinder (year 2012)
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1. Homogeneity in dating app interfaces: from left to right, Tinder, Bumble, Hinge,...Figure 2.2. Stereotypical branding between love and sex (Match and EasyFlirt)
3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1. Rate of use of online dating platforms in France, the United States, and Germany...Figure 3.2. Ranking of meeting venues in the United States in 2019 and in Germany in 2020 (%...
4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1. Time between initial contact and first sexual intercourse among couples in Franc...
5 Chapter 6Figure 6.1. Percentage, by age group, of the women and men in the United States who have use...Figure 6.2. Pyramid of ages, by gender, declared on four European dating platforms (%)
6 Chapter 7Figure 7.1. Share of female and male users initiating contact on dating platforms in six cou...
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