Dear Skaidra, My MSc research and now my PhD are in the area of online dating - and particularly language. I've included some useful references below. As well as Nicole Ellison as already mentioned in a response - Andrew Fiore, Monica Whitty, and Toma & Hancock have done a lot of work in the area. I hope that helps. Regards, Nicola Ellison, N., Heino, R., & Gibbs, J. (2006). Managing impressions online: Selfpresentation processes in the online dating environment. Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication, 11, 415–441. Fiore, A. T., & Donath, J. S. (2005). Homophily in online dating: When do you like someone like yourself? Computer-Human Interaction 2005, 1371–1374. Fiore, A.T., Shaw Taylor, L., Mendelsohn, G.A., & Hearst, M.A. (2008). Assessing Attractiveness in Online Dating Profiles. Computer-Human Interaction 2008, 797. New York, USA: ACM Press. Fiore, A. T., Taylor, L. S., Zhong, X., Mendelsohn, G. A., & Cheshire, C. (2010). Who’s right and who writes: People, profiles, contacts, and replies in online dating. In proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 43, Persistent Conversation minitrack. Gibbs, J. L., Ellison, N. B., & Heino, R. D. (2006). Self-presentation in online personals: The role of anticipated future interaction, self-disclosure, and perceived success in Internet dating. Communication Research, 33(2), 1–26. Hitsch, G. J., Hortaçsu, A., & Ariely, D. (2010). What makes you click? Mate preferences in online dating. Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 8(4), 393-427. doi: 10.1007/s11129-010-9088-6 Rosen, L., Cheever, N., Cummings, C., & Felt, J. (2008). The impact of emotionality and self-disclosure on online dating versus traditional dating. Computers in Human Behavior, 24(5), 2124–2157. Rosenfeld, M. J. (2010). Meeting online: The rise of the internet as a social intermediary. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Retrieved from http://www. allacademic.com/meta/p409508_index.html Toma, C. L., & Hancock, J. T. (2010). Reading between the lines: linguistic cues to deception in online dating profiles. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW ‘10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5–8. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1718918.1718921 Toma, C., Hancock, J., & Ellison, N. (2008). Separating fact from fiction: An examination of deceptive self presentation in online dating profiles. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1023–1036. Whitty, M. T. (2008). Revealing the ‘real’ me, searching for the ‘actual’ you: Presentations of self on an internet dating site. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 1707–1723. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2007.07.002. -------------------------------------------------------- Nicola Fox Hamilton, MSc. Cyberpsychologist & PhD Researcher Designer & Art Director +353 (0)86 224 2416 www.NicolaFoxHamilton.com www.commaworkspace.com www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=33254 -------------------------------------------------------- On 13 Sep 2013, at 01:27, skaidra puodziunas <skaidra.puodziunas@rogers.com> wrote:
Hello fello AOIR's,
Pleased to "meet" you all.
My name is Skaidra Puodziunas and I'm in 4th year as an undergraduate in an innovative and atypical bachelor degree program of Knowledge Integration, with a cross major in Speech Communication, at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
This coming year, I will be working on my 4th year, senior thesis project. I am planning to explore the world of online dating, specifically examining the factors that are associated with students engaging in online dating platforms, in my own university.
If anyone has any recommendations for journals, blogs, researchers, institutes, etc. that could be relevant to this topic, I graciously welcome them all! I consider this more of an exploratory project. I am (hopefully) going to incorporating both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Many thanks for your time, Skaidra
Skaidra Puodziunas | @SkaidraP 4A Joint Honors Knowledge Integration & Speech Communication University of Waterloo
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