Hi Radhika, Thanks for correcting me, I fully agree to you point - Shaadi is indeed not a dating website as the successful outcome is not a "date" but a marriage. I guess I still parked in my brain "under dating" as the principal is similar: you map and match participants based on their profile data and contact them online. However there is still an other aspect I was thinking about what when family members are searching a partner on behalf of someone else? Is that something you would indicate when "showing interest" in one profile? Regards Nicole MA. Nicole Reinhold, Senior Research Consultant nicole.reinhold@philips.com, http://www.design.philips.com air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org wrote on 2007-04-19 04:01:33 PM:
Frederick - I agree - it is important when studying sites to note the cultural and social context of how they are used while translating the practices that surround the use of the sites.
r On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Frederick Noronha wrote:
Nicole, I'm not sure if it's right to call a 'shaadi' site a "dating" one. The former is linked to marriage, and has very different connotations from dating as is understood in the West. Wonder what the others from the sub-continent feel on this score. FN PS: When we wanted to promote the popularity of Goanet, a not-for-profit venture, one such network was run and here's some specimen output: http://www.goacom.org/news/getStory.php?ID=2040 There's probably no one-to-one correspondence in translating across cultures.
Radhika Gajjala radhika@cyberdiva.org
Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik
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