Internet dating and ethnicity, with Melinda Mills; selfies and self-esteem. 29 Dec 2015
Summary: <p>I recently attended the Galton Institute's conference on mate choice, and was lucky to grab an interview with Prof. Melinda Mills, head of The University of Oxford's Department of Sociology. We spoke about Melinda's research on ethnicity and internet dating, why attitudes to migration shape who we are willing to date, and discussed some of the difficulties inherent in studying dating preferences on the web. I also talk about some new research on selfies and who takes them.</p><p><audio> </audio> </p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/pap-2015-12-29/pap-2015-12-29.mp3">Download the MP3</a> </p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a> </p><p><b>Read the transcript!</b><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/who-takes-selfies-c95bf4942360#.pj8qw8pt6">Who Takes Selfies?</a><br> </p><p><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wQ9haA3j-oc/Vkd7qLMud5I/AAAAAAAABjk/hTiHryjOGRA/s1600/15282079204_f521985b04_o.jpg"><br> </p><p><i>Men and women post a similar number of ‘relfies’ to social media. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/massimo_riserbo/15282079204">Roberto Trombetta/Flickr</a></i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b> </p><p>Potârcă, G., & Mills, M. (2015). Racial preferences in online dating across European countries. <span style="font-style: italic;">European Sociological Review, 31</span>(3), 326-341. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcu093">Read summary</a></p><p>Sorakowska, A., Oleszkiewicz, A., Frackowiak, T., Pisanski, K., Chmiel, A., & Sorokowski, P. (2016). Selfies and personality: Who posts self-portrait photographs? <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Individual Differences, 90</span>, 119-123. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.037">Read summary</a></p>
