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Cyberdating

From Encyclopedia of Gender in Media
Cyberdating, or online dating, has come to be understood as the use of particular Websites to find people for romantic or sexual encounters or relationships. These sites, commonly called dating Websites, allow users to search for others with whom they think they would be compatible. Dating Websites typically have users fill out a profile describing themselves for the benefit of other users who will come upon them while browsing or searching. New mobile technologies allow these and other technologies for dating and sex to be available wherever a mobile device travels and a network signal is available. Dating Websites have their antecedents in the conceptions of cybersex, or computer dating on the early Internet. Even before users widely navigated through the online world through the World Wide Web, the Internet's architecture allowed for social uses of the medium. Multi-user dungeons, bulletin boards, chat rooms, Internet relay chat, and other ways for people to congregate and…
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Full text Article ONLINE DATING

From 100 Ideas that Changed the Web
6x – 7i > 3(2x – 7u) = i <3 u Whether for friendship, marriage or sex, we are programmed to look for love. Before online dating, it used to be a romantic affair. Now it is an algorithm. Except this is not strictly true. There have always been matchmakers. There have always been blind dates. …
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Full text Article Online dating

From The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
With the stigma attached to online...
compatibility dating global growth industry Internet sites Online dating has been around since the mid‐1960s and has grown into a highly differentiated number of sites and businesses in many countries, including industrializing economies such as China and India. Sites uses a series of different…
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Full text Article Online Dating

From The Psych 101 Series: Psychology of Love 101
O nline dating is becoming more and more common among younger people as well as older adults. It is certainly changing the dating scene from what it was a few decades ago. There is much buzz going on about dating websites. There even are claims about the Internet leveling the playing field between…
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Full text Article Valentine’s Day: Asian guys stereotyped and excluded in online dating (Feb. 2020)

From The Conversation: An Independent Source of Analysis from Academic Researchers
This Valentine’s Day, many single people will be looking for their date online. In fact, this is now one of the most popular ways heterosexual couples meet. Online dating provides users with access to thousands, sometimes millions, of potential partners they are otherwise unlikely to encounter. It…
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Screenshot of Match.com in the US, via Wikimedia.
Introduction As Americans began to see how social communities could be used to establish connections, one of the first areas that they focused on was personal relationships. Online dating sites, led by eHarmony, took off in 2000 and never looked back. Still hugely popular, these sites have attracted…
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Full text Article Internet Dating

From The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies
heterosexuality Internet love marriage mate selection Abstract Internet dating has become increasingly common since the first few years of the twenty‐first century. More than 40 million people in the United States have tried Internet dating. This growing popularity can be explained by some societal…
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Full text Article Dating

From The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies
age divorce equality gender mate selection Abstract Dating is representative of changes that have occurred with regarding to mate selection and marriage. Dating can refer to a specific act (or “date”) or to the short‐ or long‐term relationship that a couple may enter. The process of dating involves…
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Full text Article Dating

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies
Dating refers to the process through which individuals meet and spend time with each other for the purpose of assessing compatibility for pursuing a romantic relationship. Also referred to as courtship, specific dating rituals and traditions vary considerably as a function of historical time period…
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Full text Article Internet dating

From Dictionary of Computing
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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