Plata Sofie Diesen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication within the School of Communication, Leadership, and Marketing at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences in Oslo, Norway. Her research focuses on digital dating platforms and their users, as part of the DigiLove project, which examines dating practices and platform characteristics. Her academic background is in cultural sociology, where she has explored themes of identity, stigma, social belonging, and structural inequalities. Her research centers on minorities and marginalized groups, with a current focus on the interplay between life experiences and user perspectives, and the ways in which digitalization shapes lived realities.