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Social networking communities and e-dating services : concepts and implications

"This book provides an overview of the major questions that researchers and practitioners in this area are addressing at this time and by outlining the possible future directions for theory development and empirical research on social networking and eDating"--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, ©2009
Information Science Reference, Hershey, ©2009
1 online resource (xxiv, 398 pages) : illustrations
9781605661056, 9781281764898, 9786611764890, 1605661058, 1281764892, 6611764895
253533802
Section I. Social networking communities
1. Individual differences in social networking site adoption / Harsha Gangadharbatla
2. Unraveling the taste fabric of social networks / Hugo Liu, Pattie Maes, Glorianna Davenport
3. Mobile social networks : a new locus of innovation / Nina D. Ziv
4. Increasing capital revenue in social networking communities : building social and economic relationships through avatars and characters / Jonathan Bishop
5. Collective solitude and social networks in World of Warcraft / Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee
6. Collaboration challenges in community telecommunications networks / Sylvie Albert, Rolland LeBrasseur
7. The impact of the Internet on political activism : evidence from Europe / Pippa Norris
8. Toward improved community-supporting systems design : a study of professional community activity / Malte Geib [and others]
9. Teens and social networking services : an overview / Maryann Mori
Section II. Social networking sites for teenagers and young adults
10. Student use of social media : university policy and response / Tamara L. Wandel
11. Facebook follies : who suffers the most? / Katherine Karl, Joy Peluchette
12. Trust in social networking : definitions from a global, cultural viewpoint / Max Kennedy, Toru Sakaguchi
13. Virtuality and reality : what happens when the two collide? / Celia Romm-Livermore, Gail Livermore
Section III. E-dating services
14. Segmentation practices of e-dating / Linda Jane Coleman, Nisreen Bahnan
15. Understanding and facilitating the development of social networks in online dating communities : a case study and model / Jonathon Bishop
16. E-dating : the five phases on online dating / Monica T. Whitty
17. How e-daters behave online : theory and empirical observations / Celia Romm-Livermore [and others]
18. A trination analysis of social exchange relationships in e-dating / Sudhir H. Kale, Mark T. Spence
19. Online matrimonial sites and the transformation of arranged marriage in India / Nainika Seth, Ravi Patnayakuni
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