[Air-l] Internet Usage in India

[Nicole Reinhold]

Hi Radhika, 

Thanks for correcting me, I  fully agree to you point  - Shaadi is indeed 
not a dating website as the successful outcome is not a "date" but a 
marriage. 

I guess I still parked in my brain "under dating" as the principal is 
similar: you  map and match participants based on their profile data and 
contact them online. However there is still an other aspect I was thinking 
about what when family members are searching a partner on behalf of 
someone else? Is that something you would indicate when "showing interest" 
in one profile?
 
Regards Nicole 

MA. Nicole Reinhold, 
Senior Research Consultant
nicole.reinhold at philips.com,  http://www.design.philips.com


air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org wrote on 2007-04-19 04:01:33 PM:

> Frederick - I agree - it is important when studying sites to note the 
> cultural and social context of how they are used while translating 
> the practices that surround the use of the sites.
> 
> r
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Frederick Noronha wrote:
> 
> > Nicole, I'm not sure if it's right to call a 'shaadi' site a "dating"
> > one. The former is linked to marriage, and has very different
> > connotations from dating as is understood in the West. Wonder what the
> > others from the sub-continent feel on this score. FN
> > PS: When we wanted to promote the popularity of Goanet, a
> > not-for-profit venture, one such network was run and here's some
> > specimen output: http://www.goacom.org/news/getStory.php?ID=2040
> > There's probably no one-to-one correspondence in translating across 
> > cultures.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Radhika Gajjala
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