[Air-L] Online Dating Studies

[Dan Perkel]

For very careful analysis of the social-pyschology of online dating and
relationship formation, I'd recommend the work of Andrew Fiore.

See: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~atf/publications.php

Regards,
Dan

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Dan Perkel
PhD Candidate
School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media
UC Berkeley
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel




On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ben Light <B.Light at salford.ac.uk> wrote:

> I've done some work on Gaydar - it's published in Information Technology
> and
> People, the European Journal of Information Systems and the International
> Journal of Information Management (some is along with Gordon Fletcher and
> Alison Adam) - you can find the papers at www.benlight.org or email me.
>
> You should also check out Sharif Mowlabocus' work as well as he's worked in
> a similar area.  There's also the book, 'love online' which might be of
> some
> use too and John Campbell's 'Getting it on online'.  Also check out
> Shoshana
> Magnets stuff on Suicide Girls in New Media and Society.  And I think it
> was
> Nathalia Livia that did a study of the French Minitel System which is
> related - the paper is in sexualities I think..  I cite it in the Gaydar
> stuff.  Oh also check the citations in the gaydar paper for, I think it's
> Arvidson in New Media and Society on Planet Out too...  I also cite a NMS
> article of John Campbell's too that might be of interest...
>
> Oh also look at Kayla Hales at Penn State - she published some early work
> on
> CMC and relationship maintenance in a special issue of Information
> Communication, Ethics and Society (2009 - vol 7, no 1).
>
> Sorry this is garbled, dashing between meetings :O)
>
> Ben.
>
>
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> On 24/2/10 09:08, "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl> wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Erhardt,
> >
> > I recently came across a project carried out at the Oxford Internet
> Institute
> > called "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in
> the
> > Digital Age".
> > You can find more about it here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/?id=47
> ,
> > including links to publications.
> >
> > I would be interested in learning about the use of Instant Messaging and
> > social networking in dating, as I am currently looking at the performance
> of
> > gender and sexuality in IM.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Koen.
> >
> > Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student
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> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org namens Erhardt Graeff
> > Verzonden: wo 24-2-2010 5:45
> > Aan: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > CC: Jonathan Beilin
> > Onderwerp: [Air-L] Online Dating Studies
> >
> > I'm preparing to co-lead a core conversation at SXSW on online dating
> > websites and trends. We've been looking at academic work like Judith
> > Donath's as well as the more cheeky but practical research on the
> OkTrends
> > blog from OkCupid. Does anyone know of good case studies of particular
> > online dating websites, or historical studies of trends in online dating?
> > Sources focusing on website design as well as sociological and
> psychological
> > aspects would all be helpful.
> >
> > Additionally, any questions about online dating sites and culture that
> you
> > might be interested in exploring the answers to, or simply discussing,
> would
> > be great.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Erhardt
> >
> >
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