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Codes of love: romance in the digital age – tech podcast

With an estimated 50 million users on Tinder, how are digital platforms like this changing the way we date? And the way we think about love? Leah Green reaches out to Moira Weigel and Dr Jenny Bristow in search of answers

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With more and more of us turning to digital platforms in the hope of finding love, we ask whether there’s any truth in the claim they are the harbingers of romance’s death. Further – what can their popularity tell us about our ever-changing conceptions of love itself?

Taking on this tricky task, Leah Green reaches out to Moira Weigel, author of Labour of Love: the Invention of Dating, who points to the surprising links between dating, technology, and the economy. Sociologist Dr Jennie Bristow also weighs in with a reminder of the role that generational divides can play in our perceptions of romance.

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