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This page highlights some studies of online dating (including
match-making).
It covers -
 Introduction
Internet dating services, even more than social network
services such as Facebook,
have become something of a happy hunting ground for psychologists,
sociologists and scholars of the ‘social graph’.
There has been a proliferation of academic articles and
research papers since the early 2000s and publication
can be expected to continue, albeit with considerable
rediscovery of past findings (or merely of the obvious).
Among introductions see Monica Whitty & Adrian Carr's
Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2006); Barraket &
Henry-Waring, 'Getting it on(line): sociological perspectives
on e-dating' 44(2) Journal of Sociology (2008)
149-166; Close & Zinkhan, 'Romance and the Internet:
The E-Mergence of E-Dating' 31 Advances in Consumer
Research (2004) 153-157; and Love online: emotions
on the Internet (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2004)
by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev.
Demographics
For indications of who is online see the demographics
pages elsewhere on this site. Specific studies include
Sautter, Tippett & Morgan, 'The Social Demography
of Internet Dating in the United States', 91(2) Social
Science Quarterly (2010) 554-575; Valkenburg &
Peter, 'Who Visits Online Dating Sites? Exploring Some
Characteristics of Online Daters', 10(6) Cyberpsychology
and Behavior (2007) 849-852
National/regional
perspectives
For the life of dating 'communities' and services see
Holme, Edling & Fredrik Liljeros, 'Structure and time
evolution of an Internet dating community' 26(2) Social
Networks (204) 155-174; Fletcher & Light, 'Going
offline: An exploratory cultural artifact analysis of
an internet dating site's development trajectories' 27(6)
International Journal of Information Management
(2007) 422-431; and Churchill & Goodman, '(In)visible
partners: people, algorithms, and business models in online
dating' 1 Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference
Proceedings (2009) 86-100
Regional and cultural perspectives are provided by Luehrmann,
'Mediated Marriage: Internet matchmaking in Provincial
Russia' 56 Europe-Asian Studies (2004) 857-75;
Lo & Aziz, 'Muslim Marriage Goes Online: The Use of
Internet Matchmaking by American Muslims' in 21(3) Journal
of Religion & Popular Culture (2009); Injy Galal,
'Online Dating in Egypt', 2(3) Global Media Journal
(2003); Love On The Line: The social dynamics involved
with people meeting other people using New Zealand online
dating sites (MSc, University of Waikato 2007) by
Maureen Marsh; Explorative Study of African Americans
and Internet Dating (MSc dissertation, Texas A&M
University) by Kamesha Spates; Kaya, 'Dating in a Sexually
Segregated Society: Embodied Practices of Online Romance
in Irbid, Jordan' in 82(1) Anthropological Quarterly
(2009) 251-278; Light, 'Introducing Masculinity
Studies to Information Systems Research: the case of Gaydar'
16(5) European Journal of Information Systems
(2007) 658-665 and Brym & Lenton's 'Love Online: Digital
Dating in Canada' (Toronto: MSN.CA, 2001)
Identity
Construction
Among works on self-disclosure and self-presentation see
Gibbs, Ellison & Heino, 'Self-Presentation in
Online Personals: The Role of Anticipated Future Interaction,
Self-Disclosure, and Perceived Success in Internet Dating',
in 33(2) Communication Research (2006) 152-177;
Monica Whitty, 'Revealing the 'real'
me, searching for the 'actual' you: Presentations
of self on an internet dating site', 24(4) Computers
in Human Behavior (2008) 1707-1723; Yurchisin, Watchravesringkan
& McCabe, 'An exploration of identity re-creation
in the context of internet dating', 33(8) Social Behaviour
and Personality (2005) 735-750; Dawson & McIntosh,
'Sexual Strategies Theory and Internet Personal
Advertisements', 9(5) Cyberpsychology and Behavior
(2006) 614-617; Toma, Hancock & Ellison, 'Separating
Fact From Fiction: An Examination of Deceptive Self-Presentation
in Online Dating Profiles', 34(8) Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin (2008) 1023-1036.
Works on interactions include Lawson & Leck, 'Dynamics
of Internet Dating', 24(2) Social Science Computer
Review (2006) 189-208; Anderson, 'Relationships
among Internet Attitudes, Internet Use, Romantic Beliefs,
and Perceptions of Online Romantic Relationships',
8(6) Cyberpsychology and Behavior (2005) 521-531;
Scripts for Online Dating: A Model and Theory of Online
Romantic Relationship Initiation (PhD Dissertation, Bowling
Green State University, 2010) by Bridget Long ; Smaill,
'Online Personals and Narratives of the Self: Australia's
RSVP', 10(1) Convergence (2004) 93-107;
Donn & Sherman, 'Attitudes and Practices Regarding
the Formation of Romantic Relationships on the Internet',
5(2) Cyberpsychology and Behavior (2002) 107-124;
Wang & Lu, 'Cyberdating: Misinformation and (Dis)trust
in Online Interaction' 10 Informing Science (2007)
1-15; Ellison, Heino & Gibbs, 'Managing Impressions
Online: Self-Presentation Processes in the Online Dating
Environment', 11(2) Journal Of Computer Mediated
Communication (2006) 415-441; and Arvidsson, 'Quality
singles': internet dating and the work of fantasy',
8(4) New Media and Society (2006) 671-690.
Public health and safety
The study of dating services has also been claimed as
a tool for understanding the emergence, reinforcement
or decay of affinity groups (eg chaste teenagers or men
who engage in same sex activity but do not self-identify
as gay) and as a mechanism that will assist informed public
health/safety policy (eg targeting community awareness
campaigns).
Examples include Couch & Liamputtong, 'Online
Dating and Mating: The Use of the Internet to Meet Sexual
Partners', 18(2) Qualitative Health Research
(2008) 268-279; Carballo-Dieguez, Dowsett, Ventuneac,
Remien, Balan, Dolezal, Luciano & Lin, 'Cybercartography
of Popular Internet Sites Used by New York City Men Who
Have Sex With Men Interested In Bareback Sex' 18(6) AIDS
Education and Prevention (2006) 475-489; Daneback,
Cooper & Månsson, 'An Internet Study of Cybersex
Participants' 34(3) Archives of Sexual Behavior
(2005) 321-328
Criminological studies include Robert Jerin & Beverly
Dolinsky, 'You've Got Mail! You Don't Want It: Cyber-Victimization
And On-Line Dating', 9(1) Journal of Criminal Justice
and Popular Culture (2001) 15-21.
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