Stephanie Tom Tong, Brandon van der Heide

Up to Date (eBook, ePUB)

Communication and Technology in Romantic Relationships

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433146565
• Artikelnr.: 65840213

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Tom Tong (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an associate professor of communication at Wayne State University. Her work-situated at the intersection of social media and interpersonal communication-examines how family, friends, and romantic partners use technology to initiate, maintain, and dissolve close relationships.

Brandon Van Der Heide (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an associate professor of communication at Michigan State University. Brandon studies how people learn to trust one another and how this trust affects communication processes, relationships, and outcomes on the Internet.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - An Introduction to Up to Date - A Brief History of Online and Mobile Dating: The Role of Technology in the Contemporary Romantic Imagination - Good, Old-Fashioned Love: The Stage Model Approach to Understanding Romantic Relationships - What is an Online Dating Platform? Defining, Describing, and Understanding Popular Dating Technologies - Self-Presentation & Impression Formation in Online and Mobile Dating - "To the Left, To the Left": Mate Selection in Online and Mobile Dating - Navigating the Great Modality Shift: From Tinder to Text to Snapchat to Starbucks - Intragroup and Intergroup Interaction Patterns: Online Dating across Age, Race, and Gender - Maintaining Romantic Relationships through Mediated Technologies - Conflict and CMC in Interpersonal Relationships - The Dark Side of Online Dating and Romantic Relationships - The Unbearable Lightness of Dating: Online and Mobile Dating Fatigue - Strange Bedfellows: Data Collection, Data Use, and Personal Privacy in Online and Mobile Dating - Concluding Thoughts, New Ideas - Index.