Digital romance: the sources of online love in the Muslim world

Sotoudeh, Ramina; Friedland, Roger; Afary, Janet

doi:10.1177/0163443717691226

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“…Although gay men have been at the forefront of technology use in the context of romantic relationships, 9,10 the majority of the existing research on this population focuses on risky sexual behaviors relating to public health concerns. [69][70][71] The shortfall of empirical research also extends other populations such as older adults 72,73 and individuals with religious beliefs, 74,75 who may experience cyberintimacy on their own terms.…”

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Cyberintimacy: A Scoping Review of Technology-Mediated Romance in the Digital Age

Kwok

Wescott

2020

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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With a swipe, click, or delete, people are now able to seek and sustain romance in unprecedented ways. The emerging research shows that cyberintimacy, or the phenomenon of technology-mediated communication between partners and potential romantic interests, significantly impacts the way we form, maintain, and even extinguish romantic relationships. Hence, this scoping review aims to (a) delineate how our use of technologymediated communication is associated with specific outcomes (e.g., satisfaction and quality) throughout the romantic relationship lifecycle, and (b) identify emerging themes in the research. Adhering to Arksey and O'Mayley's six-step framework methodology, we performed a systematic database search, literature screening, and qualitative synthesis of the findings. Seventy-two studies were selected from a pool of 4,062 articles derived from a systematic search of six academic databases. The findings show that cyberintimacy has a profound impact on outcomes in three crucial stages of the relationship lifecycle-from the way people find and field partners online through the process of initiation; to the means by which partners use technology to perform relationship maintenance; and finally, the ways in which people cope with the process of dissolution by using technology to reclaim a sense of agency.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyberintimacy: A Scoping Review of Technology-Mediated Romance in the Digital Age

Kwok

Wescott

2020

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…However, only one out of ten sample of this study that is using this option. According to Sotoudeh et al [41], Muslimbased online dating users' profile remain unknown and anonymous until the matched users decide to meet offline. Some users believed that profile pictures are not reflecting the reality, therefore it cannot be the initial factor in selecting partner on this platform [42].…”

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“…Additionally, Musmatch allow its users to use blurry photos as their profile picture. This happens as to prevent the users from making judgement for which is based on one's physical appearance [41]. The analysis of MuzMatch reveals that most of the profile pictures used are in line with their user's personal description about their life.…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding Muslims Self-presentation Strategies in Online Dating

Abubakar

Noorani²,

Rashidi³

2020

IJPCC

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This paper investigates the factors influencing online self-presentation strategies on dating platforms, and explore how Muslims users manage their online presentation on dating approach –associated with Muslim-oriented dating application and mainstream-oriented dating application in order to accomplish the goal of finding partner. Twenty-profiles from Tinder and MusMatch active online dating user was used for the study. Qualitative content analysis was used to explore the approaches of interactions associated with individual self-presentation. Four main themes were generated: Screen names, Terminal identities, Net Presence and Personal Profile. The findings reveal that both MusMatch and Tinder allow its users to choose their own screen names without any restrictions. The platforms showed how screen names can be used as a strategy to present certain impression. Users tend to post their personal interests in order to attract their potential partners on Tinder as well as MuzMatch. Users of MuzMatch used acronyms to identify themselves, whereas, users of Tinders are free to construct a socially desirable identity that may attract people’s attention and publicity. The frequency with which MusMatch users appear to interact for relationship that leads to marriage is far more than any other form of relationship. Tinder users are free to post anything as their profile picture, whereas in MuzMatch it requires authentic profile pictures. MusMatch provision for establishing relationship requires that a chaperone should be allow to mediate interactions among the potential partners in order to preserve Muslims-oriented dating style

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“…Discussions of this kind appears on regular basis and partly becouse they are new for social science. Contemporary scientiests often describes specific cases of strong changes that digitalization of society caused in a number of other social processes: education [21], work [7], friendship, and love [17]. Will it be strange to assume that anything similar is going on in politics now?…”

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Transformation of political process in digital society: case of contemporary Russia

Rudenkin¹,

Loginov²

2019

Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Digital Economy (ISCDE 2019)

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The paper is aimed to grasp those essential features of political process that it possesses nowadays in Russia due to digitalization of everyday life. It became a common point in academia now to argue that we should be persistent in our willingness to understand those changes that arise in the political process under the influence of the digitalization of society. Unfortunately, having agreed on the fact that the spread of the Internet influences on different domains of social life (including politics) we still remain too sketchy and speculative in our attempts to clarify what exactly has changed there. Probably there are no radical changes at all? We try to be more concrete in our attempt to catch new reality of politics in digital era. We argue that digitalization of society does not lead directly to a radical change in the nature of the political processthe same struggle for power is going on there. But digitalization of society highlights what has been transformed in politics recently and helps us to see those changes clearly. In order to support our thesis, we plan to use some results of our sociological survey of political process in contemporary Russia in a period of parliamentary elections in 2016. The survey shows that the political process in digital epoch has certain specificity indeed: it opens floor to a multiplicity of actors and afterwards moves normative political discussions from classic public sphere into virtual space.

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Digital romance: the sources of online love in the Muslim world

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Cyberintimacy: A Scoping Review of Technology-Mediated Romance in the Digital Age

Cyberintimacy: A Scoping Review of Technology-Mediated Romance in the Digital Age

Understanding Muslims Self-presentation Strategies in Online Dating

Transformation of political process in digital society: case of contemporary Russia

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