Licoppe2021a
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Licoppe2021a |
| Author(s) | Christian Licoppe |
| Title | The Spectre of ‘Ghosting’ and the Sequential Organization of Post-match Tinder Chat Conversations |
| Editor(s) | Joanne Meredith, David Giles, Wyke Stommel |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Online Chats, Tinder |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| City | Cham |
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| Pages | 155–176 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-64922-7_8 |
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| Book title | Analysing Digital Interaction |
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Abstract
In this chapter, I have used a conversation analysis (hereafter CA)-inspired approach to analyse the Tinder chat conversations of a sample of users in Paris. It shows how such conversations display a distinctive sequential organization in which participants: (a) design turns as a combination of backward-looking interactional moves (recognizably responsive to parts of previous messages) and forward-looking ones (often questions, and almost always moves designed as first pair parts of an adjacent sequence); (b) orient towards providing significant elaborations of their moves, made noticeable by the way they seem to run against the ‘maxim of quantity’; (c) often rely on the ‘one question after another’ device, in which an open question is immediately repaired or reformulated (in the same message or in the next one) into a Y/N question. Participants are accountable for not using such resources systematically. Since a recognizable function of such resources is to reinforce the way in which successive turns project an answer, their use displays a concern that the conversation might stop, and the commitment of their users to keeping the conversation going. Tinder chat conversations thus seem haunted from the inside by the possibility of interactional desertion or ‘ghosting’.
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