Building Relationships

Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:240 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498535830

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Mer om författaren

Dawn Shepherd is assistant professor of English and associate director of the first-year writing program at Boise State University.

Recensioner i media

[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.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Romantic Matchmaking and the Marriage ApparatusChapter Two: Procedural Rhetorical Analysis of Three Online Dating SitesChapter Three: Online Dating and the Construction of SubjectsChapter Four: Online Dating, Biopower, and Discourses of SuccessChapter Five: Online Dating, Marriage, and Family in Control SocietiesChapter Six: Postscript on Technologies of Matching