TY - GEN
T1 - Social and personal disclosure in a location-based real time dating app
AU - Fitzpatrick, Colin
AU - Birnholtz, Jeremy
AU - Brubaker, Jed R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/3/26
Y1 - 2015/3/26
N2 - Users of location-based real time dating (LBRTD) apps must decide what to disclose in their profiles. Based on 25,365 profiles from one app, our study explores users whose profile photos disclose a face, a personal disclosure that identifies them as an individual, in relation to available social disclosures, those that do not identify them as an individual. Using logistic regression models with face disclosure as the outcome, we find: older users, and users who share race are less likely to disclose a face, and higher body mass index (BMI) users, users who disclose relationship status, and users who are seeking friends or relationships are more likely to disclose a face. We frame and discuss these results in relation to literature on location norms, body image, race relations, and social stigma, and propose future work to investigate these findings, particularly those of race, relationship status, and goals, in qualitative depth.
AB - Users of location-based real time dating (LBRTD) apps must decide what to disclose in their profiles. Based on 25,365 profiles from one app, our study explores users whose profile photos disclose a face, a personal disclosure that identifies them as an individual, in relation to available social disclosures, those that do not identify them as an individual. Using logistic regression models with face disclosure as the outcome, we find: older users, and users who share race are less likely to disclose a face, and higher body mass index (BMI) users, users who disclose relationship status, and users who are seeking friends or relationships are more likely to disclose a face. We frame and discuss these results in relation to literature on location norms, body image, race relations, and social stigma, and propose future work to investigate these findings, particularly those of race, relationship status, and goals, in qualitative depth.
KW - Disclosure
KW - Identity
KW - Location
KW - Logistic regression
KW - Photos
KW - Profiles
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2015.237
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2015.237
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84944205478
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 1983
EP - 1992
BT - Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
A2 - Sprague, Ralph H.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015
Y2 - 5 January 2015 through 8 January 2015
ER -