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The new laws of love : online dating and the privatization of intimacy.
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ISBN: 1509543511 9781509543519 150954352X 9781509543526 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Polity press

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Online dating has become a widespread feature of modern social life. In less than two decades, seeking partners through commercial intermediaries went from being a marginal and stigmatized practice to a common activity. How can we explain this rapid change? And what does it tell us about the changing nature of love and intimacy?In contrast to those who praise online dating as the democratization of love and those who condemn it as the commodification of intimacy, this book tells a different story about how and why online dating became big. The key to understanding the growing prevalence of online dating lies in what Marie Bergström calls “the privatization of intimacy.” Online dating takes courtship from the public to the private sphere, and makes it a domestic and individual practice. Unlike courtship in traditional meeting venues, such as school, work and gatherings of family and friends, online dating makes a clear distinction between social and sexual sociability, and makes dating much more discrete. Apparently banal, this privatizing feature is fundamental for understanding both the success and the nature of digital matchmaking. It also sheds light on a broader social transformation: that of an increasingly private social life where interactions move indoors, narrow down to small circles and rely primarily on elective affinities.Drawing on a wide range of empirical material from interviews, national surveys and dating platforms, this book challenges what we think we know about online dating and gives us a new understanding of who, why and how people go online to seek sex and love. (Provided by publisher)


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UFOs, conspiracy theories and the New Age : millennial conspiracism
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ISBN: 9781350044982 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"How--and why-- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary. Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three prominent figures--novelist and abductee Whitley Strieber; environmentalist and reptilian proponent David Icke; and David Wilcock, alleged reincarnation of Edgar Cayce--the investigation reveals that millennial conspiracism offers an explanation as to why the prophesied New Age failed to arrive--it was prevented from arriving by malevolent, hidden others. Yet millennial conspiracism constructs a counter-elite, a gnostic third party defined by their special knowledge. An overview of the development of UFO subcultures from the perspective of religious studies, UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age is an innovative application of discourse analysis to the study of present day alternative religion"--

Rappin' and stylin' out : communication in urban Black America
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ISBN: 0252002377 9780252002373 0252004132 9780252004131 Year: 1972 Publisher: Urbana [etc.] University of Illinois Press

Entitlement and the affectional bond : justice in close relationships
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ISBN: 0306446995 1489909869 1489909842 Year: 1994 Volume: *1 Publisher: New York London Plenum Press


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The conference forum as a system of genres : A sociocultural study of academic conference practices in automotive crash-safety engineering
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ISBN: 9173463663 9789173463669 Year: 1999 Volume: 76

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