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Based on a study using online ethnography as the major research method, this book explains why and how men in Hong Kong use QQ—an online instant messenger—to “chase” women in mainland China, especially in the neighboring city of Shenzhen. Chasing women through QQ is a reciprocal exchange process during which the resources to be exchanged in the interaction are not negotiated. Rather, the men provide resources to the women, hoping for rewards in return that are not guaranteed. This characteristic of the exchange makes men who chase women through QQ very strategic in their action. They try to maximize the rewards and minimize the costs by adopting myriad strategies, such as constructing an attractive online identity by strategic self-presentation. The role of emotions in the exchange process is also examined. Men learn the emotional norms through the online forum, but sometimes it is difficult for them to control their emotions; some men fall in love when they are not supposed to. As it happens, they have failed to calculate the costs and rewards rationally in that they may provide too many resources to the women without getting enough rewards in return. This book provides original insights into the thought processes, motivations, desires, anxieties and risks of Hong Kong men seeking short-term sexual relations with women on the mainland. These insights are highly relevant to our understanding of the quickly evolving use of social media, a phenomenon of worldwide importance and deep implications.

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Online dating --- 392.4/.5 --- #SBIB:309H103 --- #SBIB:309H1713 --- #SBIB:316.356.2H3210 --- #SBIB:316.7C121 --- Internet dating --- On-line dating --- Web dating --- World Wide Web dating --- Dating (Social customs) --- 392.4/.5 Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten --- Mediatechnologie: nieuwe toepassingen (abonnee-televisie, electronic mail, desk top publishing, virtuele realiteit...) --- Partnerkeuze: kennismaking, verkering, verloving: algemeen --- Cultuursociologie: gedragspatronen, levensstijl

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‘Immigrants on Grindr expands our understanding of digital culture, offering new insights into the ways LGBTQ people use dating and hook-up apps. Shield’s research also gives a voice to gay and queer migrants and the racism they face in their daily lives as the craft new lives in foreign lands.’ —Sharif Mowlabocus, Fordham University, USA ‘With theoretical elegance and ethnographic empathy, Shield explores a range of arousing, wounding, and life-affirming connections against exclusionary forces of digital dating classifications and sexual racism.’ —Jonathan Corpus Ong, Associate Professor of Global Digital Media, University of Massachusetts Amherst ‘Shield draws on rich empirical material to make significant contributions to debates about homonationalism, sexual racism, and the role of hook-up apps in shaping contemporary socio-sexual relations. He provides valuable insights into the ways these apps can facilitate those who are 'new in town' to settle into their surroundings.’ —Gavin Brown, Professor of Political Geography and Sexualities, University of Leicester This book examines the role of hook-up apps in the lives of gay, bi, trans, and queer immigrants and refugees, and how the online culture of these platforms promotes belonging or exclusion. Within the context of the so-called European refugee crisis, this research focuses on the experiences of immigrants from especially Muslim-majority countries to the greater Copenhagen area, a region known for both its progressive ideologies and its anti-immigrant practices. Grindr and similar platforms connect newcomers with not only dates and sex, but also friends, roommates and other logistical contacts. But these socio-sexual platforms also become spaces of racialization and othering. Weaving together analyses of real Grindr profile texts, immigrant narratives, political rhetoric, and popular media, Immigrants on Grindr provides an in-depth look at the complex interplay between online and offline cultures, and between technology and society.

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This book challenges assumptions about the motivations that drive women from relatively poor, developing countries to use intermarriage dating sites to find partners from relatively wealthy, developed countries. It is generally assumed that economic deprivation or economic opportunities are the main factors, but this book instead focuses on the work of women’s imagination in online cross-cultural relationships, including the role of desire, love and intimacy. The experiences of Thai women are used to explore how they initiate, develop and maintain love and intimacy with Western men across distance and time. The book shows that, in the absence of opportunities to search and meet partners from geographically distant parts of the world, the technology of the internet offers new ways of searching for and managing relationships and has significant consequences for local experiences and expectations of love and partnering. The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in family and intimate life, gender and sexualities, Asian and Thai studies, globalization and nationalism, culture and media, sociology and anthropology. .

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Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or meet each other different from an affair in the real world? Is online sex still cheating on your partner? Why do people tell complete strangers their most intimate secrets? What are the rules of engagement? Will online affairs change the monogamous nature of romantic relationships? These are just some of the questions Professor Aaron Ben Ze'ev, distinguished writer and academic, addresses in this book, a full-length study of love online. Accessible, shocking, entertaining, enlightening, this book will change the way you look at cyberspace and love forever.

Love --- Man-woman relationships --- Mate selection --- Online dating. --- Internet. --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Internet dating --- On-line dating --- Web dating --- World Wide Web dating --- Dating (Social customs) --- Courtship --- Interpersonal relations --- Marriage brokerage --- Female-male relationships --- Male-female relationships --- Men --- Men-women relationships --- Relationships, Man-woman --- Woman-man relationships --- Women --- Women-men relationships --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Computer network resources. --- Relations with women --- Relations with men --- Internet --- Computer network resources --- Amour --- Relations entre hommes et femmes --- Choix du conjoint --- Ressources Internet --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology --- Love - Computer network resources --- Man-woman relationships - Computer network resources --- Mate selection - Computer network resources --- Dating (Social customs) - Computer network resources --- Relationships --- Seduce --- Book