[Air-L] CFP Communicative practices in online dating - IPrA 2023

[Riki Thompson]

Dear all,

Calling all dating app researchers. The deadline to submit proposals for the IPrA 2023 conference in Brussels 9th-14th July 2023 is coming up on November 1. We invite you to consider joining our panel “Communicative practices in online dating”.

The call for papers with a link to the programme page and a panel overview can be found here: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP<https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP>.

Please note that contributions to our panel will have to be submitted separately as panel contributions by 1st November 2022. Spontaneously submitted panel contributions that are not accepted by the panel organizers will be evaluated as individual presentations. Note that you can submit your abstract for consideration by the organizers of one panel only.

Abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words and based on research that is (nearly) completed, with a well-formulated research question, and with a good description of the types of data used (if the work is empirical) and of the approach.

We will also be proposing a special issue on communicative practices in online dating to the journal Discourse, Context, and Media and invite panel participants to join.

If you want to know more about the panel or the submission process, please contact us.

Best Will, Riki and Elisabeth



Panel Organisers:

Elisabeth Muth Andersen (Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark - elan at sdu.dk<mailto:elan at sdu.dk>)

Will Gibson (UCL, Institute of Education. UK – w.gibson at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:w.gibson at ucl.ac.uk>)

Riki Thompson (Writing Studies & Digital Rhetoric, University of Washington - rikitiki at uw.edu<mailto:rikitiki at uw.edu>)

Dating Apps have fundamentally changed the communicative practices of dating with 270 million adult users of dating apps worldwide in 2020. This panel brings together studies of textual interaction among dating app users, analysing in detail the interactional features of these encounters.

Drawing particularly on Conversation Analysis and cognate areas such as interactional pragmatics, Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA), and Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA), the panel explores a diverse but interrelated set of issues describing communicative practices in online dating. Such issues may involve but are not limited to the ways that users use location information and orient to place to generate topics and to organise offline meetings, the negotiation of gender norms and practices associated with online dating, and the relationship between education, age, and forms of talk.

The analyses in the panel are expected to pay attention to the distinctive textual features of these chats such as the structure of actions (e.g. compliments, invitations etc.) and messages (cf. Licoppe 2021), practices involving humour and flirting, and the sequential organization of interaction. Papers could also address the role of profile information in structuring the interaction, the use of particular communicative practices such as emoji, or platform affordances to facilitate particular types of conversation. Together, these papers provide an important advancement on existing studies of face-to-face dating (Korobov 2011; Stokoe 2010; Turowetz & Hollander 2012), and a critical contribution to the small but growing body of work on online dating and language (Kavroulaki 2021; Licoppe 2020; Mortensen 2017; Thompson 2022), showing how modern technologies are radically altering the ways that people manage dating.

References

Kavroulaki, E., 2021. “Congratulations ! You just won the title for ‘worse Tinder opening line ’” Inappropriate behaviour and impoliteness in online dating. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 9, 1.

Korobov, N., 2011. Mate-Preference Talk in Speed-Dating Conversations Mate-Preference Talk in Speed-Dating Conversations. Research on Language & Social Interaction, 44, 2, p.186–209.

Licoppe, C., 2020. Liquidity and attachment in the mobile hookup culture. A comparative study of contrasted interactional patterns in the main uses of Grindr and Tinder. Journal of Cultural Economy, 13, 1, p.73–90.

Mortensen, K.K., 2017. Flirting in online dating: Giving empirical grounds to flirtatious implicitness. Discourse Studies, 19, 5, p.581–597.

Stokoe, E., 2010. “Have You Been Married , or …?”: Eliciting and Accounting for Relationship Histories in Speed- Dating Interaction. Research on Language & Social Interaction, 40, 3, p.260–282.

Thompson, R. 2022. More than the selfie: Online dating, non-monogamy, normativity, and linked profiles on OkCupid. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 11, 1, p.1–30.__________________

Riki Thompson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Writing Studies & Digital Rhetoric, University of Washington Tacoma

rikithompson.com<http://rikithompson.com/> | @rikithompson <https://twitter.com/rikithompson>

Pronouns: she/her/they--promoting language change that makes space for all gender identities–not just binary ways of being in the world.


Publications

More than the selfie: online dating, non-monogamy, normativity, & linked profiles on OkCupid<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.academia.edu/60241446/More_than_the_selfie_online_dating_non_monogamy_normativity_and_linked_profiles_on_OkCupid__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hy-GynKEo_cDGLONgDKkQLEkmx5bbNeGLt98cJibjbK-WS13v4gR0QAOTsMN2_JGJj1Bp3_NudN9cisdYG3cQf8Agg$> - Language & Sexuality

Reflective Approaches to Analyzing Digital Discourse.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://drive.google.com/file/d/15lQSPDyvWUHfBzWul9Ak0nLjpYsV7JOD/view__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hy-GynKEo_cDGLONgDKkQLEkmx5bbNeGLt98cJibjbK-WS13v4gR0QAOTsMN2_JGJj1Bp3_NudN9cisdYG2yB9PCvg$> -  Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis.

Powerful women heading up dating apps are framed as young and sexy<https://theconversation.com/powerful-women-heading-up-dating-apps-are-framed-as-young-and-sexy-191403> -The Conversation

Does it really empower women to expect them to make the first move? <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/does-it-really-empower-women-to-expect-them-to-make-the-first-move-175032__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hy-GynKEo_cDGLONgDKkQLEkmx5bbNeGLt98cJibjbK-WS13v4gR0QAOTsMN2_JGJj1Bp3_NudN9cisdYG2cpklgdA$> - The Conversation


Podcast Interviews

More than the Selfie: Research Methodology with Online Dating Apps<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo-qualitative-data-analysis-software/resources/nvivo-podcasts?utm_source=social*media&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=fy22*nv*podcast&utm_content=episode39__;Kysr!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hy-GynKEo_cDGLONgDKkQLEkmx5bbNeGLt98cJibjbK-WS13v4gR0QAOTsMN2_JGJj1Bp3_NudN9cisdYG0qI-xycw$> NVIVO Podcast: Between the Data

Social Media & Mental Health<https://shows.acast.com/learning-more/episodes/social-media-mental-health>. Learning More Podcast


Talks

Digital Dating, Discourse, Design, & Normativity<https://youtu.be/b1PC5I0ziMQ>. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines

Making the first move on Bumble: Online dating, gender norms, & managing women <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5FmVpQ4iO4>

through online talk<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5FmVpQ4iO4> - Grit City Think and Drink Series