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Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.  \n\n|  Published online: 16 Nov 2022. |\n| --- |\n|  Submit your article to this journal  |\n|  Article views: 373 |\n|  View related articles  |\n|  View Crossmark data |\n\nFull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at [https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=gcul20](https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=gcul20)  \nINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL POLICY 2022, VOL. 28, NO. 7, 905–919  \n[https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2137157](https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2137157)  \nARTICLE  \nDating apps: towards post-romantic love in digital societies  \nCarolina Bandinelli  \nCentre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, School of Creative Arts Perfromance and Visual Culture, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK  \nABSTRACT  \nThis article contributes to studies of implicit cultural policy in platformised societies by offering an empirical study of dating apps and the ways in which they are operating a digital enclosure of the practice of dating. Reflecting on a qualitative research project conducted in different phases from 2017 to 2021, I analyse subjective experiences of dating apps in the aim of deciphering some traits of digital culture of love’s structure of feeling. I focus on the role played by the algorithm as a libidinal object invested with merit and blame, and capable of (re)producing a libidinal economy within the app itself. This is characterised by the gamified alternation of validation and humiliation, which gives the subject the possibility to deal with these feelings in the de-personalised virtual space of the app. Engaging with the app, the subject aspires to foster a careless conduct, in which moral codes traditionally associated with personhood are lifted. I argue that the policies implicit within the logic and agency of dating apps shape the techno-utopia of post-romantic love: a risk free, painless and efficient interaction, deprived of the complications of embodied romance.  \nARTICLE HISTORY  \nReceived 5 July 2022 Accepted 11 October 2022  \nKEYWORDS  \nLove; dating apps;  \ntechnology; platform society; subjectivity; culture  \nIntroduction  \nIn Fragments d’un discours amoureux (A Lover’s Discourse), published in 1977, Roland Barthes reflectson the love letter and how it puts the sender and receiver in a specific position, enthusing a reaction that, in its turn, produces an imaginary about what is a love relation. The love letter, Barthes explains, joins two images, the ‘I’ of the lover, and the ‘you’ of the beloved, and in so doing it ‘enjoins the other to reply’(Barthes 2001) . The kind of love that the love letter (re)produces is romantic love, one that demands to be reciprocated, lest the metaphorical (or actual) death of the lover – the young Wherther dies of unreciprocated love, like many of his fellow romantic characters. This fragment, along with many others in the book, casts light on the close entanglement of love as a subjective experience and the technologies that organise, shape, and model the different aspects of it, enabling certain thoughts and actions while foreclosing others. Another example is the phone call which, Barthes points out, produces a peculiar temporality of waiting that nails the lover down to its fatal identity as ‘the one who waits’,(re)producing an ideal t","cbCaileLhRjPby5M","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaileLhRjPby5M","pdf",678636,16,"English","# Introduction\n# Theoretical framing: love letters, phone calls, and technologies\n# Dating apps as implicit cultural policy\n## Algorithm as libidinal object\n## Gamified validation and humiliation","[{\"question\":\"How does the article define dating apps’ cultural policy role in platformised societies?\",\"answer\":\"It frames dating apps as implicit cultural policy that shapes how dating is experienced and carried out through platform logics and platform governance.\"},{\"question\":\"What research approach and time span does the author use?\",\"answer\":\"The article draws on a qualitative research project conducted in different phases from 2017 to 2021, focusing on subjective experiences with dating apps.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the role of the algorithm in the app according to the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The algorithm is treated as a libidinal object invested with merit and blame, capable of (re)producing a libidinal economy within the app.\"}]","Dating apps - towards post-romantic love in digital societies | PDF",1792672096]