Dear Erhardt, My friend Pawan Deep Singh, who is currently a Doctoral student at the UCSD, had done one of the only analysis of a gay dating site in India. His email address is pdsingh@ucsd.edu. I am not sure if the paper has been published somewhere, but if you do write to him, I am sure he would be happy to share the paper with you. I think the paper was interesting not only because it did an impressive qualitative analysis of the users' profiles, experiences and expectations from the website, but it also shows how technology mediated spaces become tense and contested spaces of inclusion, belonging, etc. Hope that helps, Cheers Nishant On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Erhardt Graeff <erhardt@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm preparing to co-lead a core conversation at SXSW on online dating websites and trends. We've been looking at academic work like Judith Donath's as well as the more cheeky but practical research on the OkTrends blog from OkCupid. Does anyone know of good case studies of particular online dating websites, or historical studies of trends in online dating? Sources focusing on website design as well as sociological and psychological aspects would all be helpful.
Additionally, any questions about online dating sites and culture that you might be interested in exploring the answers to, or simply discussing, would be great.
Thanks, Erhardt
-- Nishant Shah Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore. Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 # 00-91-9740074884