Building Relationships - Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture

Building Relationships uses an apparatus approach to media analysis in order to determine whether the synchronic logic of online dating is compatible with the historically diachronic logic of marriage.

List of contents

Chapter One: Romantic Matchmaking and the Marriage Apparatus
Chapter Two: Procedural Rhetorical Analysis of Three Online Dating Sites
Chapter Three: Online Dating and the Construction of Subjects
Chapter Four: Online Dating, Biopower, and Discourses of Success
Chapter Five: Online Dating, Marriage, and Family in Control Societies
Chapter Six: Postscript on Technologies of Matching

About the author

By Dawn Shepherd

Product details

• Authors: Dawn Shepherd, Shepherd Dawn
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498535830
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3583-0
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, Communication Studies, Communications engineering / telecommunications, New Media;Online Dating