Building Relationships
Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture
1st Edition
Published on 4. April 2016
158 pages
979-8-216-20404-6 (ISBN)
Description
Matchmaking is a tradition as old as marriage itself, and the activities and practices surrounding it have shifted alongside marriage. Building Relationships: Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture uses an apparatus approach to media analysis to examine logics of compatibility, online dating site procedures, and user narratives of popular matchmaking sites. Shepherd's investigation serves as a case study to help understand the larger relationship between contemporary identity and what she calls matching technologies, as well as the complex of big data, computational processing, and the cultural assumptions that power today's most popular web applications.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 BW Illustrations, 8 Tables
ISBN-13
979-8-216-20404-6 (9798216204046)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2017
Lexington Books
€58.10
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Person
Dawn Shepherd is assistant professor of English and associate director of the first-year writing program at Boise State University.
Content
Chapter One: Romantic Matchmaking and the Marriage Apparatus
Chapter Two: Procedural Rhetorical Analysis of Three Online Dating Sites
Chapter Three: Online Dating and the Construction of Subjects
Chapter Four: Online Dating, Biopower, and Discourses of Success
Chapter Five: Online Dating, Marriage, and Family in Control Societies
Chapter Six: Postscript on Technologies of Matching
Chapter Two: Procedural Rhetorical Analysis of Three Online Dating Sites
Chapter Three: Online Dating and the Construction of Subjects
Chapter Four: Online Dating, Biopower, and Discourses of Success
Chapter Five: Online Dating, Marriage, and Family in Control Societies
Chapter Six: Postscript on Technologies of Matching
