Building Relationships
Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Telecommunications, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Communication, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | Dawn Shepherd | ISBN: | 9781498508582 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | April 4, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Dawn Shepherd |
| ISBN: | 9781498508582 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | April 4, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
Building Relationships: Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture uses an apparatus approach to media analysis to examine logics of compatibility, online dating site procedures, and user narratives of popular matchmaking sites. Shepherd's investigation serves as a case study to help understand the larger relationship between contemporary identity and what she calls matching technologies, as well as the complex of big data, computational processing, and the cultural assumptions that power today’s most popular web applications.
Building Relationships: Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture uses an apparatus approach to media analysis to examine logics of compatibility, online dating site procedures, and user narratives of popular matchmaking sites. Shepherd's investigation serves as a case study to help understand the larger relationship between contemporary identity and what she calls matching technologies, as well as the complex of big data, computational processing, and the cultural assumptions that power today’s most popular web applications.
