Online Dating Studies
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 ---- Erhardt Graeff 717.919.3145 | @erhardt | http://erhardtgraeff.com http://bettergrads.org | http://goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm http://webecologyproject.org | http://awesomefoundation.org
Dear Erhardt, I recently came across a project carried out at the Oxford Internet Institute called "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age". You can find more about it here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/?id=47, including links to publications. I would be interested in learning about the use of Instant Messaging and social networking in dating, as I am currently looking at the performance of gender and sexuality in IM. Kind regards, Koen. Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 | Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/ Please consider the environment before printing this email. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org namens Erhardt Graeff Verzonden: wo 24-2-2010 5:45 Aan: air-l@listserv.aoir.org CC: Jonathan Beilin Onderwerp: [Air-L] Online Dating Studies 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 ---- Erhardt Graeff 717.919.3145 | @erhardt | http://erhardtgraeff.com http://bettergrads.org | http://goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm http://webecologyproject.org | http://awesomefoundation.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
There are a few Second Life papers out there - I can't remember off the top of my head the names but it's worth a search. Also Tom Boellstorf's book Coming of Age in Second Life. -Sharon On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) wrote:
Dear Erhardt,
I recently came across a project carried out at the Oxford Internet Institute called "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age". You can find more about it here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/?id=47 , including links to publications.
I would be interested in learning about the use of Instant Messaging and social networking in dating, as I am currently looking at the performance of gender and sexuality in IM.
Kind regards,
Koen.
Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 |
Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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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
I've done some work on Gaydar - it's published in Information Technology and People, the European Journal of Information Systems and the International Journal of Information Management (some is along with Gordon Fletcher and Alison Adam) - you can find the papers at www.benlight.org or email me. You should also check out Sharif Mowlabocus' work as well as he's worked in a similar area. There's also the book, 'love online' which might be of some use too and John Campbell's 'Getting it on online'. Also check out Shoshana Magnets stuff on Suicide Girls in New Media and Society. And I think it was Nathalia Livia that did a study of the French Minitel System which is related - the paper is in sexualities I think.. I cite it in the Gaydar stuff. Oh also check the citations in the gaydar paper for, I think it's Arvidson in New Media and Society on Planet Out too... I also cite a NMS article of John Campbell's too that might be of interest... Oh also look at Kayla Hales at Penn State - she published some early work on CMC and relationship maintenance in a special issue of Information Communication, Ethics and Society (2009 - vol 7, no 1). Sorry this is garbled, dashing between meetings :O) Ben. Ben Light Professor of Digital Media Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre Associate Head of School - Research and Innovation School of Media, Music and Performance The University of Salford Adelphi House Salford M3 6EN www.smmp.salford.ac.uk www.ccm.salford.ac.uk www.benlight.org On 24/2/10 09:08, "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl> wrote:
Dear Erhardt,
I recently came across a project carried out at the Oxford Internet Institute called "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age". You can find more about it here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/?id=47, including links to publications.
I would be interested in learning about the use of Instant Messaging and social networking in dating, as I am currently looking at the performance of gender and sexuality in IM.
Kind regards,
Koen.
Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 |
Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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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
---- Erhardt Graeff 717.919.3145 | @erhardt | http://erhardtgraeff.com http://bettergrads.org | http://goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm http://webecologyproject.org | http://awesomefoundation.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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For very careful analysis of the social-pyschology of online dating and relationship formation, I'd recommend the work of Andrew Fiore. See: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~atf/publications.php Regards, Dan ------------------------------------ Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ben Light <B.Light@salford.ac.uk> wrote:
I've done some work on Gaydar - it's published in Information Technology and People, the European Journal of Information Systems and the International Journal of Information Management (some is along with Gordon Fletcher and Alison Adam) - you can find the papers at www.benlight.org or email me.
You should also check out Sharif Mowlabocus' work as well as he's worked in a similar area. There's also the book, 'love online' which might be of some use too and John Campbell's 'Getting it on online'. Also check out Shoshana Magnets stuff on Suicide Girls in New Media and Society. And I think it was Nathalia Livia that did a study of the French Minitel System which is related - the paper is in sexualities I think.. I cite it in the Gaydar stuff. Oh also check the citations in the gaydar paper for, I think it's Arvidson in New Media and Society on Planet Out too... I also cite a NMS article of John Campbell's too that might be of interest...
Oh also look at Kayla Hales at Penn State - she published some early work on CMC and relationship maintenance in a special issue of Information Communication, Ethics and Society (2009 - vol 7, no 1).
Sorry this is garbled, dashing between meetings :O)
Ben.
Ben Light Professor of Digital Media Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre Associate Head of School - Research and Innovation School of Media, Music and Performance The University of Salford Adelphi House Salford M3 6EN
www.smmp.salford.ac.uk www.ccm.salford.ac.uk www.benlight.org
On 24/2/10 09:08, "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl> wrote:
Dear Erhardt,
I recently came across a project carried out at the Oxford Internet
Institute
called "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age". You can find more about it here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/?id=47 , including links to publications.
I would be interested in learning about the use of Instant Messaging and social networking in dating, as I am currently looking at the performance of gender and sexuality in IM.
Kind regards,
Koen.
Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 |
Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org namens Erhardt Graeff Verzonden: wo 24-2-2010 5:45 Aan: air-l@listserv.aoir.org CC: Jonathan Beilin Onderwerp: [Air-L] Online Dating Studies
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
---- Erhardt Graeff 717.919.3145 | @erhardt | http://erhardtgraeff.com http://bettergrads.org | http://goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm http://webecologyproject.org | http://awesomefoundation.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Andrew's work looks great. I'm impressed by the research out there. If anyone has other sources, we're still interested. Additionally, can anyone think of any specific practical questions about online dating website design and culture that would be fun to discuss? How about questions that are tough to research but universally interesting? Best, Erhardt On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Perkel <dperkel@ischool.berkeley.edu>wrote:
For very careful analysis of the social-pyschology of online dating and relationship formation, I'd recommend the work of Andrew Fiore.
Regards, Dan
------------------------------------ Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel<http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/%7Edperkel>
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ben Light <B.Light@salford.ac.uk> wrote:
I've done some work on Gaydar - it's published in Information Technology and People, the European Journal of Information Systems and the International Journal of Information Management (some is along with Gordon Fletcher and Alison Adam) - you can find the papers at www.benlight.org or email me.
You should also check out Sharif Mowlabocus' work as well as he's worked in a similar area. There's also the book, 'love online' which might be of some use too and John Campbell's 'Getting it on online'. Also check out Shoshana Magnets stuff on Suicide Girls in New Media and Society. And I think it was Nathalia Livia that did a study of the French Minitel System which is related - the paper is in sexualities I think.. I cite it in the Gaydar stuff. Oh also check the citations in the gaydar paper for, I think it's Arvidson in New Media and Society on Planet Out too... I also cite a NMS article of John Campbell's too that might be of interest...
Oh also look at Kayla Hales at Penn State - she published some early work on CMC and relationship maintenance in a special issue of Information Communication, Ethics and Society (2009 - vol 7, no 1).
Sorry this is garbled, dashing between meetings :O)
Ben.
Ben Light Professor of Digital Media Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre Associate Head of School - Research and Innovation School of Media, Music and Performance The University of Salford Adelphi House Salford M3 6EN
www.smmp.salford.ac.uk www.ccm.salford.ac.uk www.benlight.org
On 24/2/10 09:08, "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl> wrote:
Dear Erhardt,
I recently came across a project carried out at the Oxford Internet
Institute
called "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age". You can find more about it here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/?id=47, including links to publications.
I would be interested in learning about the use of Instant Messaging and social networking in dating, as I am currently looking at the performance of gender and sexuality in IM.
Kind regards,
Koen.
Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 |
Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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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
---- Erhardt Graeff 717.919.3145 | @erhardt | http://erhardtgraeff.com http://bettergrads.org | http://goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm http://webecologyproject.org | http://awesomefoundation.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Sorry, my second post on this - I'm back from my meeting :O) The thing I'd love to see more on (pardon the punn!) is around the structural differences of different sites that facilitate different kinds of romantic/sexual relationships. I'm writing some stuff for a book that touches on this. For example on Gaydar - you can, amongst other things, be 'a couple' looking for 'a couple' - the conception of 'it being okay' to have group sex is written into the site, you choose to be active/versatile/passive too - these, in my experience - challenge certain norms/heteronormativity... I have contacts with a BDSM community and when I get the time, I'm dying to do some work with them as their internet practices/structures are really interesting too... For example, subs often use lowercase and doms capitals... GRINDR the app for the iPhone is also interesting - it affords internet dating/hooking up and enrolls GPS technology - there's definitely something about moving from cybersex to sex in the physcial world too. I also think this stuff all relates back to networking research more generally.... We need studies of more sites that are 'out there' as it were as compared to mainstream sites such as Facebook - especially if we think about the structures/cultures stuff. I've seen several studies that aim to theorize from a study of Facebook which result in theorizations that could be improved if other sites that one might consider 'non-mainstream' had been thrown into the mix. This kind of links to the point Nancy Baym made at AOIR last year when she talked of us needing more multi-site studies - I completely agree.... Right, I'll stop now! B. On 24/2/10 18:26, "Erhardt Graeff" <erhardt@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew's work looks great. I'm impressed by the research out there. If anyone has other sources, we're still interested.
Additionally, can anyone think of any specific practical questions about online dating website design and culture that would be fun to discuss? How about questions that are tough to research but universally interesting?
Best, Erhardt
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Perkel <dperkel@ischool.berkeley.edu>wrote:
For very careful analysis of the social-pyschology of online dating and relationship formation, I'd recommend the work of Andrew Fiore.
See: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~atf/publications.php<http://people.ischoo l.berkeley.edu/%7Eatf/publications.php>
Regards, Dan
------------------------------------ Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel<http://people.ischool.berkeley.ed u/%7Edperkel>
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ben Light <B.Light@salford.ac.uk> wrote:
I've done some work on Gaydar - it's published in Information Technology and People, the European Journal of Information Systems and the International Journal of Information Management (some is along with Gordon Fletcher and Alison Adam) - you can find the papers at www.benlight.org or email me.
You should also check out Sharif Mowlabocus' work as well as he's worked in a similar area. There's also the book, 'love online' which might be of some use too and John Campbell's 'Getting it on online'. Also check out Shoshana Magnets stuff on Suicide Girls in New Media and Society. And I think it was Nathalia Livia that did a study of the French Minitel System which is related - the paper is in sexualities I think.. I cite it in the Gaydar stuff. Oh also check the citations in the gaydar paper for, I think it's Arvidson in New Media and Society on Planet Out too... I also cite a NMS article of John Campbell's too that might be of interest...
Oh also look at Kayla Hales at Penn State - she published some early work on CMC and relationship maintenance in a special issue of Information Communication, Ethics and Society (2009 - vol 7, no 1).
Sorry this is garbled, dashing between meetings :O)
Ben.
Ben Light Professor of Digital Media Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre Associate Head of School - Research and Innovation School of Media, Music and Performance The University of Salford Adelphi House Salford M3 6EN
www.smmp.salford.ac.uk www.ccm.salford.ac.uk www.benlight.org
On 24/2/10 09:08, "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl> wrote:
Dear Erhardt,
I recently came across a project carried out at the Oxford Internet
Institute
called "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age". You can find more about it here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/?id=47, including links to publications.
I would be interested in learning about the use of Instant Messaging and social networking in dating, as I am currently looking at the performance of gender and sexuality in IM.
Kind regards,
Koen.
Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 |
Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org namens Erhardt Graeff Verzonden: wo 24-2-2010 5:45 Aan: air-l@listserv.aoir.org CC: Jonathan Beilin Onderwerp: [Air-L] Online Dating Studies
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
---- Erhardt Graeff 717.919.3145 | @erhardt | http://erhardtgraeff.com http://bettergrads.org | http://goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm http://webecologyproject.org | http://awesomefoundation.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Hello all Coming late to this discussion but just wanted to let anyone who is interested in Gaydar and gay dating sites know about an even Ben Light and I are in the process of organising. This is a one-day workshop on this subject, to be held at Sussex University on 28th May. Email me off-list if you'd like the CfP / details. Regards Sharif On 24 Feb 2010, at 18:55, Ben Light wrote:
Sorry, my second post on this - I'm back from my meeting :O)
The thing I'd love to see more on (pardon the punn!) is around the structural differences of different sites that facilitate different kinds of romantic/sexual relationships. I'm writing some stuff for a book that touches on this. For example on Gaydar - you can, amongst other things, be 'a couple' looking for 'a couple' - the conception of 'it being okay' to have group sex is written into the site, you choose to be active/versatile/passive too - these, in my experience - challenge certain norms/heteronormativity... I have contacts with a BDSM community and when I get the time, I'm dying to do some work with them as their internet practices/structures are really interesting too... For example, subs often use lowercase and doms capitals... GRINDR the app for the iPhone is also interesting - it affords internet dating/hooking up and enrolls GPS technology - there's definitely something about moving from cybersex to sex in the physcial world too.
I also think this stuff all relates back to networking research more generally.... We need studies of more sites that are 'out there' as it were as compared to mainstream sites such as Facebook - especially if we think about the structures/cultures stuff. I've seen several studies that aim to theorize from a study of Facebook which result in theorizations that could be improved if other sites that one might consider 'non-mainstream' had been thrown into the mix. This kind of links to the point Nancy Baym made at AOIR last year when she talked of us needing more multi-site studies - I completely agree....
Right, I'll stop now!
B.
On 24/2/10 18:26, "Erhardt Graeff" <erhardt@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew's work looks great. I'm impressed by the research out there. If anyone has other sources, we're still interested.
Additionally, can anyone think of any specific practical questions about online dating website design and culture that would be fun to discuss? How about questions that are tough to research but universally interesting?
Best, Erhardt
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Perkel <dperkel@ischool.berkeley.edu>wrote:
For very careful analysis of the social-pyschology of online dating and relationship formation, I'd recommend the work of Andrew Fiore.
See: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~atf/publications.php<http://people.ischoo l.berkeley.edu/%7Eatf/publications.php>
Regards, Dan
------------------------------------ Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel<http://people.ischool.berkeley.ed u/%7Edperkel>
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ben Light <B.Light@salford.ac.uk> wrote:
I've done some work on Gaydar - it's published in Information Technology and People, the European Journal of Information Systems and the International Journal of Information Management (some is along with Gordon Fletcher and Alison Adam) - you can find the papers at www.benlight.org or email me.
You should also check out Sharif Mowlabocus' work as well as he's worked in a similar area. There's also the book, 'love online' which might be of some use too and John Campbell's 'Getting it on online'. Also check out Shoshana Magnets stuff on Suicide Girls in New Media and Society. And I think it was Nathalia Livia that did a study of the French Minitel System which is related - the paper is in sexualities I think.. I cite it in the Gaydar stuff. Oh also check the citations in the gaydar paper for, I think it's Arvidson in New Media and Society on Planet Out too... I also cite a NMS article of John Campbell's too that might be of interest...
Oh also look at Kayla Hales at Penn State - she published some early work on CMC and relationship maintenance in a special issue of Information Communication, Ethics and Society (2009 - vol 7, no 1).
Sorry this is garbled, dashing between meetings :O)
Ben.
Ben Light Professor of Digital Media Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre Associate Head of School - Research and Innovation School of Media, Music and Performance The University of Salford Adelphi House Salford M3 6EN
www.smmp.salford.ac.uk www.ccm.salford.ac.uk www.benlight.org
On 24/2/10 09:08, "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl> wrote:
Dear Erhardt,
I recently came across a project carried out at the Oxford Internet
Institute
called "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age". You can find more about it here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/?id=47, including links to publications.
I would be interested in learning about the use of Instant Messaging and social networking in dating, as I am currently looking at the performance of gender and sexuality in IM.
Kind regards,
Koen.
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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
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Dr. Sharif Mowlabocus Lecturer in Media and Digital Media Studies Dept. of Media and Film Studies University of Sussex Tel: 01273 876587 s.j.mowlabocus@sussex.ac.uk Blog: www.creativemess.wordpress.com Centre for Material Digital Culture: www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/ Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network: www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/bssn
Perhaps that the web is now encompassing mobile applications that integrate real life location: case in point someone mentioned Grindr. Sometimes the online interaction is just there to initiate real life 'dating' or other kinds of interaction. Here's a well written article on one gay man's experience with the Grindr app entitled, 'Sex in the Time of GPS': http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-01/sex-in-the-time-of... -Sharon On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Erhardt Graeff wrote:
Andrew's work looks great. I'm impressed by the research out there. If anyone has other sources, we're still interested.
Additionally, can anyone think of any specific practical questions about online dating website design and culture that would be fun to discuss? How about questions that are tough to research but universally interesting?
Best, Erhardt
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
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