- Product
- Describe the form you hope your project will assume (i.e. paper, film, podcast) and a justification for why your selection provides the best approach to present your findings.
We are planning to do option two–the 12-15 minute performative project. With this form, we hope to put together a video essay to tell an audience about our research on Tinder and findings. We think this form provides the best approach to present our findings because we plan to conduct interviews and think it will be deeply impactful to include clips from these interviews. This form situates the audience in the Bowdoin context, so they can better understand the nuances of this community and how it manifests on Tinder’s platform.
- Changes
- Provide a description of any changes in the product of your project, with a brief explanation for your decision.
Nicole and I are changing out project from a video essay to a podcast because we think it will be a better representation of our findings as well as better protecting the identities of our respondents. While most of my interviewees so far have not felt like there was a negative association with having Tinder on campus, it is still important to protect identity, especially for any queer respondents we might have. I think the podcast will be great to make the discussion more conversation and accessible to a wider audience, especially because Tinder is so relevant and recognizable to people outside of just a strictly academic settting.