CSE 469 “Hey u up?”: Tech, Culture, and (Maybe) Love

This class explores dating apps and their impacts on how we experience the world around us, from technology to culture to relationships. Our goal is to better understand, and document, how technology influences human connection, interactions, and behavior and how human interactions, behavior, and ideology impact the use, shaping, and creation of technology. Using a rhizomatic approach to research, observation, and analysis, we will engage with scholarly and popular conversations on dating apps, conduct interview users, and analyze apps to consider issues related to bias, security, safety, identity, and relationships. Through this process we will work to understand and make explicit how dating apps are designed and used as well their risks and benefits. This course will culminate in a final research-based project selected by the student.
Credits: 3
Satisfactory Grading: Ineligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
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