ABSTRACT Geolocation as an increasingly common technique in dating apps is often portrayed as a way of configuring uncertainty that facilitates playful interaction with unknown strangers while avoiding subjecting the user to unwanted risks. Geolocation features are used in these apps on the one hand as matching techniques that created links between the user and potential partners through geographical location, and on the other as warranting techniques that can help a user to determine whether to trust a given profile. Tracing a trajectory from Georg Simmel’s figure of the stranger as intrinsic to modern urban culture, through Stanley Milgram’s familiar stranger as an inspiration for the infrastructure of social networking sites, to a consideration of the double perspective of overview and embedment inherent in geolocation’s ability to map, we identify the stalker as an emblematic figure that appears not as a threatening Other, but rather as our own doubling.

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定位陌生人：将不确定性映射为约会应用程序中匹配和保证技术的配置

摘要地理定位是约会应用程序中一种越来越普遍的技术，通常被描述为一种配置不确定性的方法，该不确定性有助于与未知陌生人进行有趣的互动，同时避免使用户遭受不必要的风险。地理位置功能在这些应用程序中一方面用作通过地理位置在用户和潜在合作伙伴之间创建链接的匹配技术，另一方面又作为可以帮助用户确定是否信任给定配置文件的担保技术。从斯坦格·米尔格拉姆（Stanley Milgram）熟悉的陌生人作为社交网站基础设施的灵感，追溯乔治·西梅尔（Georg Simmel）对现代城市文化固有的陌生人形象的轨迹，并考虑地理定位功能固有的概观和嵌入双重视角，