From Gawker, December 30th, 2015 by Gawker Staff:
“How to Win Tinder” by Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser at The New Inquiry What, exactly, is Tinder? In their essay about the dominant mobile dating app, Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser explore the values, pitfalls, and invisible ideologies of a platform designed to streamline the weird process human beings refer to as “dating.” It’s a perceptive piece in itself, but it’s also a valuable rejoinder to another Tinder essay published 2015, Nancy Jo Sales’ takedown in Vanity Fair. By approaching the app from several different standpoints—Tinder as software, Tinder as labor, Tinder as video game, and so on—Eler and Peyser manage to comprehend not just Tinder, but the accelerating change of the conditions under its users exist.”
