It's like a gamble, anything could happen: Women navigating safety and agency in online dating in urban Turkey

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dc.authoridUstunel, Anil/0000-0002-1983-6372
dc.authorwosidUstunel, Anil/JNS-8719-2023
dc.contributor.authorGurcan, Cansu
dc.contributor.authorUstunel, Anil Ozge
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:48:54Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:48:54Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractOnline dating platforms are increasingly used to explore dating and relationships by young adults. Although a growing body of evidence shows that they pose disproportionate and gendered risks to women's safety and health, the question of how young adult women respond to and resist these risks is not sufficiently understood. The present study aims to fill this gap by exploring how women navigate safety and exercise agency when dating men online in a non-Western traditional context in transition, that is, urban Turkey. Data were collected through qualitative interviews with 11 women users of dating apps, aged 24-33 years, and thematically analyzed from a feminist perspective. The analysis showed three themes that captured the women's extensive and individual safety-building labor when dating men via apps: (a) bearing the burden of risks, (b) exercising control in the midst of risks, and (c) planning for a safe exit. The conservative gender order that fails to effectively respond to gender-based violence and reinforces the stigmatization of women for dating online exacerbated their effort in contemporary Turkey. Our findings extend previous work by showing that women's safety work and agency in online dating are socioculturally, contextually, and continually mediated.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/09593535231194436
dc.identifier.endpage171en_US
dc.identifier.issn0959-3535
dc.identifier.issn1461-7161
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85169611149en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage151en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/09593535231194436
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8000
dc.identifier.volume34en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001060514400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofFeminism & Psychologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectAgencyen_US
dc.subjectOnline Datingen_US
dc.subjectSafetyen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectChoiceen_US
dc.subjectTinderen_US
dc.titleIt's like a gamble, anything could happen: Women navigating safety and agency in online dating in urban Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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