As diversas facetas da sexualidade estão se tornando cada vez mais visíveis na sociedade atual e duas categorias que começam a ganhar espaço e visibilidade na contemporaneidade são as das transexuais e das travestis. Transexuais são pessoas que não se identificam com seus genitais biológicos (e suas atribuições socioculturais) podendo, às vezes, utilizar da cirurgia de transgenitalização para construir suas expressões de gêneros em consonância com seu bem estar biopsicossocial e político; enquanto travestis são pessoas que se identificam com as imagens e estilos de gêneros (masculinos e femininos) contrários ao seu sexo biológico (machos e fêmeas), que desejam e se apropriam de indumentárias e adereços dessas estéticas; realizam com frequência a transformação de seus corpos por meio da ingestão de hormônios e/ou da aplicação de silicone industrial, assim como, pelas cirurgias de correção estética e de implante de próteses, o que lhes permitem se situar dentro de uma condição agradável de bem estar biopsicossocial. Diversos estudos têm sido realizados, tendo essas pessoas como alvo. No entanto, são poucos os que focalizam as necessidades, desejos e fantasias das mesmas no que tange à esfera sexual. Este estudo tem como objetivo conhecer a vida sexual de travestis e transexuais, dando ênfase às suas práticas e roteiros sexuais. A pesquisa tem enfoque metodológico qualitativo e utiliza a teoria dos roteiros sexuais de Gagnon como referencial teórico. Os dados foram colhidos mediante a aplicação de entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas. Foram entrevistadas 15 pessoas, de 19 a 58 anos, entre travestis, transexuais que já realizaram a cirurgia de redesignação sexual e transexuais que não a realizaram. As entrevistas aconteceram em situação face a face e foram audiogravadas. Também foi utilizado o diário de campo para anotações do pesquisador. Posteriormente, essas foram transcritas integral e literalmente, constituindo o corpus da pesquisa. Os achados foram sistematizados, de modo a capturar os modos de organização da vida sexual, os tipos de práticas e os roteiros sexuais, além dos desejos, fantasias, ações e relações que as circunscrevem. Pode-se notar a incorporação de diversos discursos pertencentes à cultura ocidental, em especial a cultura brasileira, sendo os quatro principais: o discurso do gênero, o do amor romântico, o médicocientífico e o erótico. Alguns dos aspectos desses discursos são incorporados fielmente aos roteiros, enquanto outros sofrem improvisações de cada colaboradora. Esses discursos são usados para legitimar a condição feminina de cada uma delas, assim como, para construir suas visões do sexo e de mundo. No nível interpessoal, foram caracterizadas relações unilaterais em diversos níveis e o elemento de sedução como constituinte dos roteiros das colaboradoras profissionais do sexo. As práticas de penetração (sexo vaginal e anal) foram as mais enfatizadas nos discursos, seguidas do sexo oral em detrimento de beijos e carícias, que apesar de pouco referidos, foram mencionados como de extrema importância. Acredita-se que este estudo poderá trazer contribuições relevantes para a compreensão das singularidades da vida sexual de transexuais e travestis, assim como para o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas de saúde focalizadas nas questões sexuais dessas pessoas. / The many facets of sexuality are becoming more visible in society today and two categories that are gaining visibility in contemporary space are transsexuals and travestis. Transsexuals are people who do not identify with their biological genitalia (and their sociocultural assignments) and can, sometimes, use the reassignment surgery to build their expressions of gender in line with their biopsychosocial and political welfare; while travestis are people who identify with the images and styles of genders (masculine and feminine) contrary to their biological sex (male and female), who wish and appropriate costumes and props of such aesthetic; who perform often transformations on their bodies through ingestion of hormones and/or the application of industrial silicone, as well as by cosmetic surgery and prostheses implants, which allow them to be located within a pleasant welfare biopsychosocial condition. Several studies have been conducted with these people as their target. However, there are few that focus on the needs, desires and fantasies of this people regarding the sexual sphere. This study aims to know the sex lives of travestis and transsexuals, emphasizing their sexual practices and sexual scripts. The research has a qualitative methodological approach and uses the Gagnons theory of sexual scripts. Data were collected through the application of semistructured interviews. We interviewed 15 people, with ages between 19 and 58 years old, between travestis, transsexuals who already underwent sex reassignment surgery and transsexuals who didnt undergo the surgery. The interviews were carried out in face to face situation and were audio recorded. The notes filed of the researcher were also used. Later, the interviews were transcribed in full and literally, constituting the corpus of research. The findings were organized in order to capture the ways of organization of sexual life, the kinds of practices and sexual scripts, as well as desires, fantasies, actions and relations that circumscribe them. It may be noted the incorporation of several speeches belonging to Western culture, especially the Brazilian culture, with the top four being: the gender speech, the romantic love speech, the medical-scientific speech and the erotic speech. Some aspects of these speeches are faithfully embedded into the scripts, while others suffer improvisations of each collaborator. These speeches are used to legitimize the feminine condition of each collaborator, as well as to build their visions of sex and of the world. At the interpersonal level, unilateral relationships were characterized at various levels and the element of seduction as a constituent of the scripts of the sex workers collaborators. Penetration practices (vaginal and anal sex) were more emphasized in speeches, followed by oral sex instead of kisses and caresses, which although rarely reported, were quoted as extremely important. It is believed that this study will bring significant contributions to the understanding of the singularities of the sexual life of transsexuals and travestis, as well as for the development of public health policies focused on sexual issues of these people.

As diversas facetas da sexualidade estão se tornando cada vez mais visíveis na sociedade atual e duas categorias que começam a ganhar espaço e visibilidade na contemporaneidade são as das transexuais e das travestis. Transexuais são pessoas que não se identificam com seus genitais biológicos (e suas atribuições socioculturais) podendo, às vezes, utilizar da cirurgia de transgenitalização para construir suas expressões de gêneros em consonância com seu bem estar biopsicossocial e político; enquanto travestis são pessoas que se identificam com as imagens e estilos de gêneros (masculinos e femininos) contrários ao seu sexo biológico (machos e fêmeas), que desejam e se apropriam de indumentárias e adereços dessas estéticas; realizam com frequência a transformação de seus corpos por meio da ingestão de hormônios e/ou da aplicação de silicone industrial, assim como, pelas cirurgias de correção estética e de implante de próteses, o que lhes permitem se situar dentro de uma condição agradável de bem estar biopsicossocial. Diversos estudos têm sido realizados, tendo essas pessoas como alvo. No entanto, são poucos os que focalizam as necessidades, desejos e fantasias das mesmas no que tange à esfera sexual. Este estudo tem como objetivo conhecer a vida sexual de travestis e transexuais, dando ênfase às suas práticas e roteiros sexuais. A pesquisa tem enfoque metodológico qualitativo e utiliza a teoria dos roteiros sexuais de Gagnon como referencial teórico. Os dados foram colhidos mediante a aplicação de entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas. Foram entrevistadas 15 pessoas, de 19 a 58 anos, entre travestis, transexuais que já realizaram a cirurgia de redesignação sexual e transexuais que não a realizaram. As entrevistas aconteceram em situação face a face e foram audiogravadas. Também foi utilizado o diário de campo para anotações do pesquisador. Posteriormente, essas foram transcritas integral e literalmente, constituindo o corpus da pesquisa. Os achados foram sistematizados, de modo a capturar os modos de organização da vida sexual, os tipos de práticas e os roteiros sexuais, além dos desejos, fantasias, ações e relações que as circunscrevem. Pode-se notar a incorporação de diversos discursos pertencentes à cultura ocidental, em especial a cultura brasileira, sendo os quatro principais: o discurso do gênero, o do amor romântico, o médicocientífico e o erótico. Alguns dos aspectos desses discursos são incorporados fielmente aos roteiros, enquanto outros sofrem improvisações de cada colaboradora. Esses discursos são usados para legitimar a condição feminina de cada uma delas, assim como, para construir suas visões do sexo e de mundo. No nível interpessoal, foram caracterizadas relações unilaterais em diversos níveis e o elemento de sedução como constituinte dos roteiros das colaboradoras profissionais do sexo. As práticas de penetração (sexo vaginal e anal) foram as mais enfatizadas nos discursos, seguidas do sexo oral em detrimento de beijos e carícias, que apesar de pouco referidos, foram mencionados como de extrema importância. Acredita-se que este estudo poderá trazer contribuições relevantes para a compreensão das singularidades da vida sexual de transexuais e travestis, assim como para o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas de saúde focalizadas nas questões sexuais dessas pessoas. / The many facets of sexuality are becoming more visible in society today and two categories that are gaining visibility in contemporary space are transsexuals and travestis. Transsexuals are people who do not identify with their biological genitalia (and their sociocultural assignments) and can, sometimes, use the reassignment surgery to build their expressions of gender in line with their biopsychosocial and political welfare; while travestis are people who identify with the images and styles of genders (masculine and feminine) contrary to their biological sex (male and female), who wish and appropriate costumes and props of such aesthetic; who perform often transformations on their bodies through ingestion of hormones and/or the application of industrial silicone, as well as by cosmetic surgery and prostheses implants, which allow them to be located within a pleasant welfare biopsychosocial condition. Several studies have been conducted with these people as their target. However, there are few that focus on the needs, desires and fantasies of this people regarding the sexual sphere. This study aims to know the sex lives of travestis and transsexuals, emphasizing their sexual practices and sexual scripts. The research has a qualitative methodological approach and uses the Gagnons theory of sexual scripts. Data were collected through the application of semistructured interviews. We interviewed 15 people, with ages between 19 and 58 years old, between travestis, transsexuals who already underwent sex reassignment surgery and transsexuals who didnt undergo the surgery. The interviews were carried out in face to face situation and were audio recorded. The notes filed of the researcher were also used. Later, the interviews were transcribed in full and literally, constituting the corpus of research. The findings were organized in order to capture the ways of organization of sexual life, the kinds of practices and sexual scripts, as well as desires, fantasies, actions and relations that circumscribe them. It may be noted the incorporation of several speeches belonging to Western culture, especially the Brazilian culture, with the top four being: the gender speech, the romantic love speech, the medical-scientific speech and the erotic speech. Some aspects of these speeches are faithfully embedded into the scripts, while others suffer improvisations of each collaborator. These speeches are used to legitimize the feminine condition of each collaborator, as well as to build their visions of sex and of the world. At the interpersonal level, unilateral relationships were characterized at various levels and the element of seduction as a constituent of the scripts of the sex workers collaborators. Penetration practices (vaginal and anal sex) were more emphasized in speeches, followed by oral sex instead of kisses and caresses, which although rarely reported, were quoted as extremely important. It is believed that this study will bring significant contributions to the understanding of the singularities of the sexual life of transsexuals and travestis, as well as for the development of public health policies focused on sexual issues of these people.

Cette recherche doctorale se propose d’apporter un regard constructiviste et critique à l’objet « Alzheimer et sexualité », en s’intéressant aux différentes manières dont les membres de la famille et les professionnel·le·s de santé perçoivent la sexualité des personnes labellisées Alzheimer (PLA). Quarante-trois entretiens ont été réalisés auprès de ces deux groupes et ont été analysés dans une perspective de théorisation ancrée. Fondé sur une articulation de la théorie des scripts de la sexualité et de celle des représentations sociales, ce travail présente dans une première partie une typologie des représentations, majoritairement anormalisantes, des PLA. La seconde partie montre que les scripts et représentations ne sont pas mobilisés de la même manière par les professionnel·le·s de santé et par les familles, les conduisant à concevoir la sexualité respectivement comme problématique et comme accessoire. Enfin, la dernière partie propose une analyse des subjectivités replacées dans leur contexte social, restituant la singularité et la complexité des positions individuelles des professionnel·le·s de santé et des membres de la famille. Ce travail permet finalement d’éclairer les mécanismes de construction de l’altérité, conduisant à des formes d’âgisme et de validisme qui se manifestent par l’interdiction de la sexualité des PLA, par sa limitation, ou par son caractère impensable. / This dissertation adopts a constructivist and critical approach of the subject “Alzheimer and sexuality”, by focusing on how relatives and health professionals perceive sexuality. Forty-three interviews were conducted among these two groups and analyzed by grounded theory. By combining the sexual script theory with social representation theory, this research presents in a first part a typology of the representations of the people labeled Alzheimer (PLA), that are mainly characterized by abnormalization. The second part shows that the scripts and representations are not used in the same way by health professionals and relatives. While professionals tend to conceive the PLA’s sexuality as problematic, relatives see it as secondary. In a last part, the subjectivities of health professionals and relatives are analyzed in their social context, allowing to shed light on the singularity and the complexity of their individual positions. Eventually, this work highlights the mechanisms of construction of otherness, leading to forms of ageism and validism manifested by the prohibition of PLA’s sexuality, its limitation, or its unthinkable nature.

Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous development in e-publishing tools. The Arab world tendency towards electronic publishing has facilitated the prosperity of Arabic e-publishing over the Internet. Likewise, it has enabled the ordinary user to deploy documents, letters, opinions, and ideas with freedom and ease of use. Although freedom of expression should be guaranteed to everyone, it may be used to disseminate false or distorted information. This may lead to the loss of ordinary user's confidence in e-content. However, the user's confidence in e-content will increase if the credibility of the content is emphasized. There are many factors that challenge this task including not only the rapidly growth of Arabic digital publishing, the absent from control over electronic content, and the lack of e-publishing regulations and laws, but also how to develop an efficient framework to confirm the digital content authenticity. Therefore, the need to monitor the credibility of Internet content while maintaining freedom of expression to its users has become an urgent matter of debate. A flexible framework needs to be developed that will overcome these issues and allow for a comprehensible and comfortable content validation environment that would satisfy the end users' desires. This thesis proposes a framework that serves to confirm fundamental text authenticity in Arabic scripts on the Internet. This framework will demonstrate the design and the development of new quotes verification algorithm and the necessary components of framework design, development and implementation based on Service Oriented architecture.

Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous development in e-publishing tools. The Arab world tendency towards electronic publishing has facilitated the prosperity of Arabic e-publishing over the Internet. Likewise, it has enabled the ordinary user to deploy documents, letters, opinions, and ideas with freedom and ease of use. Although freedom of expression should be guaranteed to everyone, it may be used to disseminate false or distorted information. This may lead to the loss of ordinary user's confidence in e-content. However, the user's confidence in e-content will increase if the credibility of the content is emphasized. There are many factors that challenge this task including not only the rapidly growth of Arabic digital publishing, the absent from control over electronic content, and the lack of e-publishing regulations and laws, but also how to develop an efficient framework to confirm the digital content authenticity. Therefore, the need to monitor the credibility of Internet content while maintaining freedom of expression to its users has become an urgent matter of debate. A flexible framework needs to be developed that will overcome these issues and allow for a comprehensible and comfortable content validation environment that would satisfy the end users' desires. This thesis proposes a framework that serves to confirm fundamental text authenticity in Arabic scripts on the Internet. This framework will demonstrate the design and the development of new quotes verification algorithm and the necessary components of framework design, development and implementation based on Service Oriented architecture.

La théorie des carrières présente la carrière comme un phénomène socialement construit encadré par des normes d’ordre pratique et des représentations symboliques. Peu de travaux cependant ont cherché à comprendre comment ces normes et ces représentations étaient construites. Notre thèse propose de répondre à cette question en étudiant le processus de construction des carrières. Considérant la carrière dans une logique de dualité, elle étudie plus particulièrement les rôles de l’action individuelle et de la structure sociale dans la construction des règles et des représentations encadrant les carrières. Pour ce faire, elle mobilise le cadre théorique des scripts de carrière et le cadre empirique du secteur humanitaire, où les règles et les représentations de la carrière sont en cours de définition. Notre thèse montre que les systèmes de règles et les représentations des carrières humanitaires sont encapsulés au sein de trois scripts de carrière humanitaire et met en évidence comment les travailleurs humanitaires et les ONG, engagés dans une relation d’influence mutuelle, participent au développement et aux changements de ces scripts. Notre thèse retrace ainsi le processus de construction des carrières humanitaires jusqu’à aujourd’hui et met en évidence les enjeux relatifs à la poursuite de ce processus dans le futur. / Career theory presents careers as a social phenomenon based on norms and symbolic representations. Few papers have, however, questioned how these norms and representations are built. The aim of this thesis is to answer this question by studying the process of career construction. Arguing for career duality, we propose to understand career construction, and the norms and representations on which they are based as the result of an interplay between individual action and social structure. The thesis is based on a particular theoretical framework, the career script concept and on a particular empirical framework, the humanitarian sector, where career rules and representations are still emerging. We suggest that humanitarian careers rules and representations are encapsulated within three humanitarian career scripts and shows that humanitarian workers and NGOs influence the development of these scripts through a recursive relationship. This thesis analyses the current humanitarian career construction process and highlights some challenges that may affect the continuation of this process.

L’objectif de cette thèse était de fournir des recommandations aux professionnels de la justice pour recueillir la parole des adolescents, population de témoin peu étudiée en laboratoire. Pour cela, cinq études ont été conduites. Les deux premières avaient pour objectif de dresser un état des lieux des pratiques des enquêteurs français. Nous avons observé une spécificité des adolescents, notamment en ce qui concerne le recours aux suggestions d’informations. Celles-ci étaient plus fréquemment faites lorsque l’adolescent venait de développer un propos, ce qui n’était pas le cas avec des mineurs plus jeunes. Cela pourrait signifier des objectifs d’audition différents selon l’âge du mineur (Étude 1). Pourtant, les recommandations internationales déconseillent fortement l’usage des suggestions en raison des biais mémoriels qu’elles peuvent entrainer immédiatement comme de manière différée. Ensuite, nous avons montré que les adolescents sont les plus représentés parmi les mineurs témoins et/ou victimes dans les affaires françaises et qu’ils sont généralement perçus comme menteurs et pudiques par les enquêteurs (Étude 2). Une étude conduite avec des gendarmes formés aux techniques de recueil de la parole des mineurs témoins (vs. non formés ; Étude 3) a montré que ces utilisations des questions suggestives seraient dues à une croyance des enquêteurs selon laquelle les suggestions pouvaient aider le mineur à se souvenir et à rappeler des informations, mais aussi (et surtout) permettre à l’enquête d’avancer. Ceci était d’autant plus vrai pour les gendarmes non formés. Pour répondre à ces pratiques inappropriées, mais aussi aux besoins des enquêteurs, nous nous sommes intéressés à deux versions modifiées de l’entretien cognitif (ECM). En effet, ce protocole d’audition est basé sur un questionnement ouvert (plutôt que fermé ou suggestif), et propose des stratégies de récupération efficaces. En favorisant la récupération en mémoire et le rappel des informations, il pourrait alors optimiser leur fiabilité, en vue de les exploiter lors de l’enquête judiciaire. Pour cela, nous avons testé la mnémotechnique du Séquençage (Étude 4), qui a montré ses bénéfices. Nous avons en effet observé une hausse du rappel des informations correctes (vs. entretien structuré ; ES). Toutefois, celle-ci s’accompagnait d’une hausse des erreurs. Un résultat similaire a été observé en testant une version raccourcie de l’ECM pour des événements répétés dans le temps (vs. événement unique ; Étude 5). De plus, cette étude a mis en avant une hausse des affabulations avec l’ECM (comparativement à un ES, et indépendamment de la fréquence de l’événement), mais aussi des confusions entre les différents événements visionnés par une partie des adolescents. Ces augmentations des informations erronées n’entrainaient cependant, dans aucune des deux études, de chute du taux d’exactitude. Ces résultats seront discutés au regard de la littérature scientifique, et des recommandations appliquées seront formulées afin d’aider les enquêteurs à conduire au mieux leurs auditions d’adolescents témoins et/ou victimes. / The goal of this thesis was to provide recommendations to any practitioner involved in the justice system to interview adolescent witnesses and/or victims, a population little studied in laboratory analogue contexts. To do so, five studies were conducted. The first two studies were aimed at establishing an inventory of the young French investigators’ witness interview practices. We observed that adolescents are a specific population, in particular regarding the use of suggestive questions. This type of questions increased right after the adolescents had just developed a statement, which was not the case with younger children. This result might reveal that, during investigative interviews with children and adolescents, the investigators have different aims depending on the age of the young witness (Study 1). However, international recommendations strongly discourage the use of suggestions because of immediate and delayed memory biases that may occur. Secondly, we have shown that adolescents represent most of the under legal age witnesses and/or victims in French cases, and that investigators generally perceived them as liars and as easily ashamed (Study 2). A study conducted with military police officers who previously had training in the use of structured interview techniques (vs. untrained officers; Study 3) showed that their use of suggestive questions were related to the belief that suggestive prompts could help the young witness and/or victim retrieve and recall information, but also (and most importantly) allow the investigation to move forward. This was especially observed with untrained military police officers. To deal with these inappropriate practices, we investigated the efficiency of two modified versions of the cognitive interview (MCI). This interview protocol is based on an open (rather than closed or suggestive) questioning style, and proposes effective retrieval strategies. Relying on techniques that promote memory retrieval and recall of information, it could then enhance the adolescents’ statements’ reliability, for these to be used during the investigation. We therefore tested a mnemonic called ‘guided peripheral focus’ (Study 4), which showed its benefits. Indeed, we observed an increase in the recall of correct information (vs. structured interview; SI). However, this was accompanied by an increase in errors. A similar pattern was observed with a shortened version of the MCI (vs. SI) used for repeated events (vs. single event; Study 5). In addition, this last study showed an increase in confabulations with the MCI (compared to a SI, and irrespective of the frequency of the event), but also in confusions between the different events experienced by some of the adolescents. However, these increases in erroneous details did not lead to a drop in the accuracy rate in either study. The results of the five studies will be discussed in regards with the scientific literature, and recommendations to help justice practitioners conduct their adolescent witness and/or victim interviews as appropriately as possible will be provided

Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous development in e-publishing tools. The Arab world tendency towards electronic publishing has facilitated the prosperity of Arabic e-publishing over the Internet. Likewise, it has enabled the ordinary user to deploy documents, letters, opinions, and ideas with freedom and ease of use. Although freedom of expression should be guaranteed to everyone, it may be used to disseminate false or distorted information. This may lead to the loss of ordinary user's confidence in e-content. However, the user's confidence in e-content will increase if the credibility of the content is emphasized. There are many factors that challenge this task including not only the rapidly growth of Arabic digital publishing, the absent from control over electronic content, and the lack of e-publishing regulations and laws, but also how to develop an efficient framework to confirm the digital content authenticity. Therefore, the need to monitor the credibility of Internet content while maintaining freedom of expression to its users has become an urgent matter of debate. A flexible framework needs to be developed that will overcome these issues and allow for a comprehensible and comfortable content validation environment that would satisfy the end users' desires. This thesis proposes a framework that serves to confirm fundamental text authenticity in Arabic scripts on the Internet. This framework will demonstrate the design and the development of new quotes verification algorithm and the necessary components of framework design, development and implementation based on Service Oriented architecture.

Choice has been demonstrated to have positive effects on behavior like increasing task engagement, positive affect, and accuracy in the completion of tasks. However, the effects of choice have been primarily observed with individuals receiving behavior analytic interventions. It is unknown whether the choice of intervention modality would have similar positive effects on the implementer. Social scripts are a social skill intervention that provides a model of appropriate language through the presentation of antecedent stimuli that increase the likelihood of desired behavior in learners. Social script can be delivered in two different modalities, auditory and textual, which facilitate the choice for instructors for this study. The purpose of the study was to (a) evaluate the effects of multiple available intervention modalities on the frequency of implementation, (b) assess instructor preference of two social skill interventions, and (c) to determine the feasibility of those interventions. The results of this study indicate the multiple choices of modalities did not affect the frequency of implementation but did have an effect on instructor preference. Two instructors in this study showed a mixed preference until the choice was available and their preference switched to auditory scripts. Overall, teachers in this study rated the social script intervention highly. There was a 9.2% increase in acceptability from pre- to post-test.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker könsmönster inom nätdejting. Fokus ligger på vilka aspekter som anses vara viktiga att framhäva i en manlig respektive kvinnlig nätdejtingprofil samt hur roller och ansvar i parbildningen fördelas över kön. Syftet är att genom ett performativt synsätt undersöka ifall den svenska kontexten av uppfattad sexuell liberalism, jämställdhet, social inbundenhet och digitalisering framkallat mindre traditionella könsmönster inom svensk nätdejting. Den tidigare forskningen talar för att nätdejting tenderar att följa traditionella könsmönster, men litteraturen innehåller få exempel från Sverige. Datamaterialet utgörs av textinlägg i diskussionstrådar på två av Sveriges största internetforum, Flashback och Familjeliv. Diskussionerna innehåller råd och berättelser om hur nätdejtare av olika kön ska utforma sina profiler och sin interaktion, något vi läser som bokstavliga instruktioner för hur kön ska ”göras”. Totalt har 111 sidor med textinlägg hämtats och analyserats. Oavsett kön så är det enligt materialet viktigt att nätdejtare är tydliga med att visa upp hur man ser ut från flera vinklar, samt berätta vem man är, vad man tycker om och inte tycker om. Det framgår att användare tenderar råda varandra att utforma sina profiler i linje med det stereotypt attraktiva för respektive kön, men även att profiler ges delvis olika funktion beroende på kön. Män förväntas vara den aktiva initiativtagaren och behöver därför skapa en profil med kapacitet att sticka ut i mängden av andra män och fånga intresse. Kvinnor förväntas vara passiva och kan skapa en profil utformad för att underlätta för mannen samt på förhand ”sålla” bort de ointressanta i mängden av initiativtagare. Funktionerna svarar till typiska interaktionsmönster inom nätdejtinglitteraturen, där män tenderar att ”tråla” – gilla/skriva till så många som möjligt - medan kvinnor är mer återhållsamma och undviker att inleda kontakter. Resultateten pekar mot att dessa mönster inte nödvändigtvis återskapas frivilligt. Avslutningsvis skildrar undersökningen hur miljöerna som nätdejtingtjänster utgör inte sällan leder till frustration och bitterhet bland användarna, och det påpekas att den svenska kontexten inte verkar ha lett till tydligt utstickande könsmönster gällande profilskapande eller parbildning.