Building Relationships

Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-11-01
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt240 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor172
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498535830

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[The] main originality of this book is in applying procedural rhetoric to the study of matching sites. In fact, as they become more popular and more accessible, the complex procedures of these sites, which include symbolic values and unequivocal implications of what a good match may be, are certainly influencing newer generations' understanding of their relationships. In turn, daily practices and expressions of dating, sexuality, marriage, same-sex relationships, friendships, and even family, are impacted by these transformations.