作　者：刘子曦
关键词：个人信息；网络相亲；隐私决策；边界工作；互联网婚恋平台；数字化社交
摘　要：

随着数字技术的深度渗透，婚恋平台正在重构亲密关系的实践场域，将传统的私密情感互动转化为公开的社群交流与信息流动，由此催生了新型隐私困境。基于对某公益相亲平台的田野调查，从“边界工作”理论视角出发，可探讨数字化社交中隐私的社会建构机制。研究发现，隐私决策体现为平台与用户围绕“个人信息可见性”展开的持续性边界协商：平台通过信息审核、界面设计与规则制定为用户构建隐私实践的框架，而用户则通过挪用、抵抗与创造性适应积极维护其数字身份构建的能动性。进言之，不同社会经济地位的用户在隐私协商能力上存在显著差异，这种“边界工作不平等”可能影响其获取婚恋资源的机会，从而加剧数字亲密关系中的结构性不平等。在数字化社交的语境下，隐私不是固定的信息属性，而是在用户与平台围绕范围与场景的可见性所做的划界实践。这一边界工作的分析框架可以揭示平台化社会中的隐私困境，为理解数字社会中婚恋不平等的形成提供新视角。

 

"Dating" Without "Knowing": Privacy Decision-making And Boundary Work in Online Dating
Liu Zixi
（Xiamen University）
Abstract With the in-depth penetration of digital technologies, online dating platforms are reshaping the landscape of intimate relationships by transforming traditionally private emotional interactions into open community exchanges and information flows, giving rise to a new set of privacy dilemmas. Based on a field study of a nonprofit matchmaking platform, this paper examines the social construction mechanism of privacy in digital socialization from the perspective of boundary work theory. The research reveals that privacy decision-making consists of ongoing boundary negotiations between platforms and users regarding the "visibility of personal information"; platforms set the framework for users' privacy practices via content moderation, interface design and rule-making, while users proactively safeguard their autonomy in shaping digital identities through appropriation, resistance and creative adaptation. Furthermore, users with disparate socioeconomic status differ markedly in their capacity for privacy negotiation, and such inequality in boundary work may undermine their access to romantic resources and further exacerbate structural inequities within digitally mediated intimate relationships. Within the context of digital sociality, privacy is not an inherent, fixed attribute of information but a boundary-defining practice negotiated between users and platforms over informational scope and contextual visibility. This analytical framework of boundary work unveils privacy predicaments in platform-mediated society and offers a fresh perspective for understanding how romantic stratification emerges in the digital age.
Key words personal information; online-matchmaking; privacy decision-making; boundary work; online dating platforms; digital social interaction

 

■ 作者简介 刘子曦，厦门大学社会与人类学院教授，福建 厦门 361005。

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