Fragmented desire? Platform intimacy and the politics of care
Published online on July 07, 2026
Abstract
Media, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article argues that fragmentation is not the inevitable outcome of dating and hook-up apps, nor a simple synonym for the decline of intimacy. It is better understood as a recurrent tendency of platformized intimacy: the reformatting of intimate ...
This article argues that fragmentation is not the inevitable outcome of dating and hook-up apps, nor a simple synonym for the decline of intimacy. It is better understood as a recurrent tendency of platformized intimacy: the reformatting of intimate ...