We Met on the Net: Exploring the Perceptions of Online Romantic Relationship Participants

Long Distance Military and Civilian Relationships: Women's Perceptions of the Impact of Communication Technology and Military Culture

“…In addition, they identified qualities of affect, emotional tone, and responsiveness, and how these were conveyed differentially over various media, as influential in the quality of the technology-mediated relationship. These findings are consistent with those of related studies by Sahlstein (2006), Utz (2007), and Rabby (2007), but inconsistent with some studies of exclusively online relationships (Pauley & Emmers-Sommer, 2007;Wildermuth & Vogl-Bauer, 2007) which failed to support differences in relationship satisfaction or intimacy based solely on media selection.…”

The Lived Meanings of Chinese Social Network Sites (SNSs) among Urban White-Collar Professionals

“…Previous research on SNSs has explored diverse topics, including impression management (boyd 2007;Donath and boyd 2004;Walther et al 2008), network structure (Acar 2008;Donath 2007;Zywica and Danowski 2008), online/offline connections (Donath and boyd 2004;Hargittai 2007), privacy issues (Ibrahim 2008;Lewis, Kanfman, and Christakis 2008), niche communities (Byrne 2007;McCabe 2009;Mellin 2008), motivations for using social network sites (Gangadharbatla 2008), and specific types of social networks (Humphreys 2007;Wildermuth and Vogl-Bauer 2007). Despite the variety of this content, most research on SNSs has focused on U.S.-based Web sites and English-speaking populations (Kim and Yun 2007).…”

40 Is the New 65? Older Adults and Niche Targeting Strategies in the Online Dating Industry

“…6 An example of an explicitly stated age group can be found on the SeniorMatch.com homepage, which currently reads "#1 Senior Dating Site for Singles Over 50". As the highlighted portions emphasize, the bulk of these two texts is nearly identical, with the name of the target group merely being plugged in at the appropriate places 5 . Yet, looking at either of these sites in isolation, visitors are less apt to realize that what they are reading is actually a standardized appeal used across a variety of audiences.…”

“…While the "senior" label was used by several of the older-adult dating sites in this study, the boundaries used to define this group seemed to vary from site to site, and all were significantly lower than the legal retirement mark of 65. Of the sites in the sample that explicitly stated a target age group 6 , the most 5 In the color scheme used here, yellow is used to indicate text that is repeated across both sites and pink is used to indicate areas where the name of the target population has been plugged into the template. 6 An example of an explicitly stated age group can be found on the SeniorMatch.com homepage, which currently reads "#1 Senior Dating Site for Singles Over 50".…”