Jerry is on six apps daily - Hinge, Bumble, Tinder, Scruff , OKCupid, and Grindr. He has a love-hate relationship with dating apps. How will Jerry navigate the world of swipe, date, repeat? Will apps lead Jerry to his ultimate goal: a mate for life?
Jerry Allen Carnegie
Heda Kurtz is a 20-something nonbinary identified gamer who seeks love on Nevermet, where Heda uses an avatar in a “love is blind” form of swiping. She meets Dyno on NeverMet, spending countless hour on virtual dates in the metaverse….and they fall in love. Heda ventures from her home in central Florida to meet Dyno for the first time to northern Michigan. But will love found through tech translate to real life?
Heda kurtz
French journalist Judith Duportail spent two years investigating Tinder’s secret desirability score that ranked people by attractiveness. She was able to get Tinder to hand over 800 pages of her data. She chronicles the experience in her book, L’Amour sous algorithm. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and Slate.
Judith Duportail
Dr. Fisher is regarded as a preeminent expert on “the brain and love.” A biological anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, she is a regular guest on news shows to discuss dating trends, dating during the pandemic, etc. She is the “Chief Science Advisor” at Match Group and has worked with Match.com since the mid 2000s. Dr. Fisher has given several TED Talks and written six books on topics including why we fall in love, the neural chemistry of love and sexuality, monogamy, adultery, and divorce. As a researcher, she conducts MRI studies of people in various states of love.
Helen Fisher
Dr. Klinenberg is a NYU sociologist and a writer. He has written and studied on a variety of topics, but is known for collaborating with Aziz Ansari on the book Modern Romance, a study of the state of dating in the 21st century that also looks back in time into how dating and marriage played out for previous generations, and around the world to examine romantic norms in other countries. He previously wrote a book called Going Solo about the rise of Americans living alone.
Eric Klinenberg
Sangheeta Singh-Kurtz is a journalist at New York Magazine and The Cut. She also co-hosted Vox’s big tech podcast Land of the Giants’s 7th season, which dissected on the billion-dollar dating app industry.
Sangheeta Singh-Kurtz
Lakshmi Rangaraja has been recognized by Vanity Fair, CNBC, and The New York Times as a thought leader in both dating and workplace dynamics. She hosts the podcast, The Later Dater Today, where she delves into how to bridge digital and IRL relationships offering actionable insights to my audience. She also co-hosted the 7th season of Vox’s big tech podcast Land of the Giants, which focuses on the dating app industry. Her journey began at the forefront of using in-person events to offset the effects of online dating, which led her to work as Director of Event Design at Match.com.
Lakshmi Rangaraja
Sheena S. Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School, and a world expert on choice and decision-making. Her book The Art of Choosing received the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2010 award, and was ranked #3 on the Amazon.com Best Business and Investing Books of 2010. Her research is regularly cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist as well as in popular books, such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance. Dr. Iyengar has also appeared on television, including the Today Show, the Daily Show, and Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN. Her TED Talks have collectively received almost four million views and her research continues to inform markets, businesses, and individuals around the world.
Sheena Iyengar
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a former Google data scientist. He has published research using Google Trends search data, as well as data from Wikipedia and Facebook, to gain real-time insights into people's thoughts and beliefs that they may be unwilling to admit publicly.
His research - which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviors and attitudes - has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Danaë Metaxa is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Computer and Information Science department, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication.
In their research, Dr. Metaxa studies bias and representation in algorithmic systems and content, focusing on high-stakes social settings like politics and employment, and in particular on the experiences of maginalized people. Along with Andrew Head, they are the co-founder of the Penn HCI group.
Danaë Metaxa
Director of Impact Partnerships at Consumer Reports, Amira Dhalla works with organizations on projects to improve the safety, security, and privacy of consumer products and tools, while also shining a spotlight on marketplace issues including discriminatory technologies, deceptive design, digital access, and inclusion. She’s always working towards the internet and technology being a safe and inclusive space for diverse groups of people.