Full Description
In Up to Date, Tong and Van Der Heide explore the spicy, unsettling—and sometimes just exhausting—universe of online romance.
Contents
List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - An Introduction to Up to Date - A Brief History of Online and Mobile Dating: The Role of Technology in the Contemporary Romantic Imagination - Good, Old-Fashioned Love: The Stage Model Approach to Understanding Romantic Relationships - What is an Online Dating Platform? Defining, Describing, and Understanding Popular Dating Technologies - Self-Presentation & Impression Formation in Online and Mobile Dating - "To the Left, To the Left": Mate Selection in Online and Mobile Dating - Navigating the Great Modality Shift: From Tinder to Text to Snapchat to Starbucks - Intragroup and Intergroup Interaction Patterns: Online Dating across Age, Race, and Gender - Maintaining Romantic Relationships through Mediated Technologies - Conflict and CMC in Interpersonal Relationships - The Dark Side of Online Dating and Romantic Relationships - The Unbearable Lightness of Dating: Online and Mobile Dating Fatigue - Strange Bedfellows: Data Collection, Data Use, and Personal Privacy in Online and Mobile Dating - Concluding Thoughts, New Ideas - Index.
