COMM 10 – 11/10/2023

INTIMACY

- Online before offline

o Intimacy online before meeting f2f
o Why is this effective?
- Self-disclosure and hyper personal communication
o Advantage: more time to think
o No pressure to be awkward
o Easy to pick up where one has left off
- Labor (2020) & Jalagat and Yapo (2021)
o Tinder and grindr
- Labor (2020)
o Visual rhetoric
o Focus about how the self is presented in tinder and Grindr
o Displaying the ideal self
 Acting out one’s parts
 Displaying the idealized version of the self
 Putting the best foot forward
o Showing an offline life

o Different app means different uses = different measures

- Self-censorship
o Editing photos, bios, creating a curated look
- Matching
o Hey/hi
o Term and address