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      Female Self-presentation through Online Dating Applications

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      Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2022 (EVA 2022)
      Conference theme: Use of new and emerging technologies in Digital Art, Data, Scientific and Creative Visualisation, Digitally Enhanced Reality and Everyware, 2D and 3D Imaging, Display and Printing, Mobile Applications, Museums and Collections, Music, Performing arts, and Technologies, Open Source and Technologies, Preservation of Digital Visual Culture, Virtual Cultural Heritage, Ethical Issues, Historical Issues, Digital Culture, Artificial Intelligence, NFTs
      Conference date: 4–8 July 2022
      Keywords: Digital culture, Gender studies, Online dating, Online self-presentation
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            Abstract

            Online self-presentation plays a vital role in online dating applications due to online filtering and contacting the desirable potential partners through presentational clues. Applying qualitative data collected from young female participants and the theoretical Two-Component Model of Leary & Kowalski (1990) on the motivation process and construction process, this paper presents an overview of a study based on the comprehension of participants’ motivation process for dating profiles to explore the construction process of online dating self-presentational approaches. The results indicate that through the self-presentational clues of photography, text, and video display for constructing online dating profiles, young women can selectively and strategically demonstrate the partial and ornamental self with physical and ideological attractiveness. Simultaneously, they struggle with their ideal and real self in the process of online dating self-presentation.

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            Jing Li
            Jonathan P. Bowen
            Conference
            Publication date: July 2022
            Publication date (Print): July 2022
            Pages: 103-110
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            [0001]Department of Sociology

            University of York

            York, UK

            &

            Jing’an District

            Shanghai, China
            [0002]School of Engineering

            London South Bank University

            London, UK

            &

            Southwest University

            Chongqing, China
            Article
            DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.22
            SO-VID: 2e665301-89bd-4ce7-b7aa-662022f603fb
            Copyright © © Li et al. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2022, UK
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            Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2022
            Conference acronym: EVA 2022
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            Conference location: London
            Conference date: 4–8 July 2022
            Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Conference theme: Use of new and emerging technologies in Digital Art, Data, Scientific and Creative Visualisation, Digitally Enhanced Reality and Everyware, 2D and 3D Imaging, Display and Printing, Mobile Applications, Museums and Collections, Music, Performing arts, and Technologies, Open Source and Technologies, Preservation of Digital Visual Culture, Virtual Cultural Heritage, Ethical Issues, Historical Issues, Digital Culture, Artificial Intelligence, NFTs
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            Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing

            ScienceOpen disciplines: Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Keywords: Digital culture,Online self-presentation,Online dating,Gender studies

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