O afeto na era digital: uma análise das experiências corporais e afetivas no aplicativo tinder.

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the bodily and affective experiences that are reconstituted in the Tinder application through its use in the city of Campina Grande - PB. In view of the way social life today articulates with digital devices such as smartphones and social networks on the internet, we will analyze how the body and affective relationships are reconfigured in online relationship platforms such as Tinder. This debate will include a discussion about new technologies, social networks, the corporeality in these spaces and some considerations about the affective relationships that, arising from these platforms, function as a product for the capitalist market. The theoretical contribution of this research has references such as Eva Illouz (2011), Donna Haraway (2009), Raquel Recuero (2009/2014), Manuel Castells (1999), Pierry Lévy (1999), among others, who will help us to understand the complex relationship between technology, body and affection. To carry out this work, we used a methodological path that was adapted to the needs of the research. Thus, immersion in the field took place through ethnography, as well as participant observation; also using semi-structured interviews with men between 20 and 29 years old who reported their impressions and experiences on Tinder. With this, we observe that the relationships resulting from Tinder are configured as fluid because they are closely linked to the thinking of the capitalist market, thus emerging, perhaps, a new model of modern relationship.