Up to Date

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.