{"id":1877,"date":"2017-02-13T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:36","slug":"love-tech-its-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/13\/love-tech-its-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Love &#038; tech: It&#8217;s complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only a decade ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone. The mobile app boom came afterward, helping to make services like Uber, Twitter, Instagram, and Tinder household names. We&#8217;re still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/heres-why-tech-has-taken-over-our-relationships-tinder-bumble-galser-eharmony-match\/\">feeling the effects that technological change<\/a> is having on our culture and relationships, says\u00a0<strong>Nicole <\/strong><span data-shortcode=\"no-autolink\"><strong>Ellison<\/strong>, <\/span>a professor at the School of Information. We may reach a point where tech helps us more easily find people in our daily lives. Imagine, for example, an app that points out a fellow Game of Thrones fan at a party, so you can more easily strike up a conversation. &#8220;We have more information about people than ever before, and many of us have these supercomputers in our pocket that have geolocation capabilities to see who&#8217;s around us in space,&#8221; she said. Together, that information could help us more easily talk to each other, find common ground, and (maybe) live happily ever after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a decade ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone. The mobile app boom came afterward, helping to make services like Uber, Twitter, Instagram, and Tinder household names. We&#8217;re still feeling the effects that technological change is having on our culture and relationships, says\u00a0Nicole Ellison, a professor at the School of Information. We may reach a point where\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/13\/love-tech-its-complicated\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,217],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-apps","tag-culture"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"excerpt-thumbnail":false,"themonic-thumbnail":false,"ioslider-thumbnail":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"400x250-crop":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Only a decade ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone. The mobile app boom came afterward, helping to make services like Uber, Twitter, Instagram, and Tinder household names. We&#8217;re still feeling the effects that technological change is having on our culture and relationships, says\u00a0Nicole Ellison, a professor at the School of Information. We may reach&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}