Up to Date
eBook - PDF

Up to Date

Communication and Technology in Romantic Relationships

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Up to Date

Communication and Technology in Romantic Relationships

About this book

In Up to Date, Tong and Van Der Heide explore the spicy, unsettling—and sometimes just exhausting—universe of online romance.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1 An Introduction to Up to Date
  7. 2 A Brief History of Online and Mobile Dating: The Role of Technology in the Contemporary Romantic Imagination
  8. 3 Good, Old-Fashioned Love: The Stage Model Approach to Understanding Romantic Relationships
  9. 4 What is an Online Dating Platform? Defining, Describing, and Understanding Popular Dating Technologies
  10. 5 Self-Presentation & Impression Formation in Online and Mobile Dating
  11. 6 ā€œTo the Left, To the Leftā€: Mate Selection in Online and Mobile Dating
  12. 7 Navigating the Great Modality Shift: From Tinder to Text to Snapchat to Starbucks
  13. 8 Intragroup and Intergroup Interaction Patterns: Online Dating across Age, Race, and Gender
  14. 9 Maintaining Romantic Relationships through Mediated Technologies
  15. 10 Conflict and CMC in Interpersonal Relationships
  16. 11 The Dark Side of Online Dating and Romantic Relationships
  17. 12 The Unbearable Lightness of Dating: Online and Mobile Dating Fatigue
  18. 13 Strange Bedfellows: Data Collection, Data Use, and Personal Privacy in Online and Mobile Dating
  19. 14 Concluding Thoughts, New Ideas
  20. Index
  21. Series index