Ghosts in the Dating App Machine : Virality, AI, Data Colonialism (Hardcover)

1. Introduction?

Part 1: Summoning ghosts

2. Feeling ghosts

3. The ghost of coloniality?

Part 2: OkCupid’s ghost

4. OkCupid’s entrepreneurs of intimacy

5. OkCupid’s algorithmic imaginary?

Part 3: Virality machines

6. The swipe virus

7. Turing’s ghost?

Part 4: Dating app ghosts

8. The uncanny swipe drive

9. Bored ghosts and anxious text games?

Part 5: Ghosts in the virality machine

10. One-way funhouse mirrors?

Appendix: methods

Index