2,896
Views
18
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
RESEARCH ARTICLE

The filtered encounter: online dating and the problem of filtering through excessive information

&
Pages 237-258 | Received 12 Aug 2009, Accepted 25 Aug 2011, Published online: 01 Mar 2012

References

  • Barbrook , R. 2000 . Cyber-Communism: How the Americans are superseding capitalism in cyberspace . Science as Culture , 9 ( 1 ) : 5 – 40 .
  • Best , K. 2008 . “ The Effects of Mediation? Beyond the Construction of Consent in the War on Terror ” . In Rethinking Insecurity and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization , Edited by: Grenfell , D. and James , P. 71 – 84 . London : Routledge .
  • Best , K. 2010a . Living in the control society: Surveillance, users and digital screen technologies . International Journal of Cultural Studies , 13 ( 1 ) : 5 – 24 .
  • Best , K. 2010b . Concealing Screens: Consent, control and the desiring user . Reconstruction , 10 ( 2 ).
  • Charmaz , K. 2003 . “ Qualitative Interviewing and Grounded Theory Analysis ” . In Inside Interviewing: New lenses, New concerns , Edited by: Holsetin , J.A. and Gubrium , Jaber F. Thousand Oaks : Sage .
  • Creed , B. 1997 . “ Screen sex: from television to teledildonics ” . In Sex in public: Australian sexual cultures , Edited by: Matthews , J.J. 16 – 30 . St. Leonards , NSW : Allen & Unwin .
  • Culnan , M.J. and Markus , M.L. 1987 . “ Information technologies ” . In Handbook of organizational communication: An interdisciplinary perspective , Edited by: Jablin , F.M. , Putnam , L.L. , Roberts , K.H. and Porter , L.W. 420 – 443 . Newbury Park : Sage .
  • Delmege , S ., and K. Best . Forthcoming . Shopping for Love in the Twenty-first Century .
  • Ellison , N. , R. Heino , and J. Gibbs . 2006 . Managing impressions online: Self-presentation processes in the online dating environment . Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 11 , no. 2 .
  • Fiore , A.R.T. 2004 . Romantic regressions: an analysis of behavior in online dating systems . Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston .
  • Frohlick , S. , and P. Migliardi . 2008 . Surfing for love: Women, the Internet, sexual and intimate relationships .
  • Frost , J. , Chance , Z. , Norton , M.I. and Ariely , D. 2008 . People are experience goods: Improving online dating with virtual dates . Journal of Interactive Marketing , 22 ( 1 ) : 51 – 61 .
  • Galloway , A.R. 2004 . Protocol: How control exists after decentralization , Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
  • Ghosh , R.A. 1998 . Cooking pot markets: An economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet . First Monday no. 3 .
  • Gibbs , J.L. , Ellison , N.B. and Heino , R.D. 2006 . Self-presentation in online personals: The role of anticipated future interaction, self-disclosure, and perceived success in Internet dating . Communication Research , 33 ( 2 ) : 152 – 77 .
  • Gudelunas , D. 2005 . Online personal ads: Community and sex, virtually . Journal of Homosexuality , 49 ( 1 ) : 1 – 33 .
  • Hardey , M. 2002 . Life beyond screen: Embodiment and Identity through the Internet . The Sociological Review , 50 ( 4 ) : 570 – 85 .
  • Hitsch , G. , A. Hortacsu , and D. Ariely . 2005 . What makes you click: An empirical analysis of online dating .
  • Lea , M. , Spears , R. and de Groot , D. 2001 . Knowing me, knowing you: Anonymity effects on social identity processes within groups . Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin , 27, : 526 – 537 .
  • Lessig , L. 1999 . Code and other laws of cyberspace , New York : Basic Books .
  • Lessig , L. 2002 . Dot.Commons . In The future of ideas . New York : Vintage .
  • Lessig , L. 2004 . Free culture , New York : Penguin Press .
  • Lewis , J. 2002 . From culturalism to transculturalism . Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies .
  • McRae , S. 1997 . “ Flesh made word: Sex, text and the virtual body ” . In Internet culture , Edited by: Porter , D. New York : Routledge .
  • Morgan , D.L. 1997 . Focus groups as qualitative research , Thousand Oaks : Sage .
  • Morley , D. and Silverstone , R. 1991 . “ Communication and context: ethnographic perspectives on the media audience ” . In A Handbook of qualitative methodologies for mass communication research , Edited by: Jensen , K.B. and Jankowski , N.W. London : Routledge .
  • Nardi , B. and Whittaker , S. 2002 . “ The role of face-to-face communication in distributed work ” . In Distributed Work , Edited by: Hinds , P. and Kiesler , S. 83 – 112 . Cambridge : MIT Press .
  • Padgett , D. 1998 . Qualitative methods in social work research , Thousand Oaks : Sage .
  • Poster , M. 1995 . The second media age , Cambridge : Polity Press .
  • Rubin , H.J. and Rubin , I.S. 1995 . Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data , Thousand Oaks : Sage .
  • Scott , D.W. 2002 . Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me a mate: A cultural examination of a virtual community of single mormons . Journal of Media and Religion , 1 ( 4 ) : 201 – 16 .
  • Shapiro , I. 2005 . The flight for reality in the human sciences , Princeton : Princeton University Press .
  • Singletary , M. 1994 . Mass communication research: Contemporary methods and applications , New York and London : Longman .
  • Tanis , M. and Postmes , T. 2003 . Social cues and impression formation . CMC Journal of Communication , 53, : 676 – 693 .
  • Tommasi , N. 2004 . Differences between heterosexual males and females in presentation of self and qualities desired in a partner in online dating services . Retrieved August 6, 2009, from http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/dissertations/AAIEP10807/
  • Turkle , S. 1995 . Life on screen: Identity in the age of the Internet , New York : Simon & Schuster .
  • Walther , J.B. and Parks , M.R. 1992 . Relational communication in computer-mediated interaction . Human Communication Research , 19, : 50 – 88 .
  • Walther , J.B. and M.R. Parks . 2002 . Cues filtered out, cues filtered in: computer-mediated communication and relationships . In Handbook of interpersonal communication (3rd ed., pp. 529–563) M.L. Knapp , and J.A. Daly . Thousand Oaks : Sage .
  • Weiss , R.S. 1994 . Some Interviewing Guidelines. In Learning from Strangers: The art and method of qualitative interview studies , New York : The Free Press .
  • Whitty , M.T. 2003 . Cyber-flirting . Theory & Psychology , 13 ( 3 ) : 339 – 357 .
  • Yurchisin , J. , Watchravesringkan , K. and McCabe , D.B. 2005 . An exploration of identity re-creation in the context of internet dating . Social Behavior and Personality , 33 ( 8 ) : 735 – 50 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.