Mediated Relationships

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ID20508586
AuthorsMichael Hardey (0000-0002-1027-0165, Newcastle University, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume7
Issue2
Pages207-222
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInformation Communication & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-118X • E-ISSN: 1468-4462
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369118042000232657
OpenAlexW4254828040
LanguageEN
Citations received21

This paper is about the Internet as a new mode of meeting people and forming relationships. It is argued that the rapidly growing number of Internet 'dating resources' constitute a domain where people are entering into particular forms of interactions that are characterized by interactional 'rules' that facilitate the building of 'trust' between users. Authenticity and 'emotional communication' is, as Giddens (The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1992) has suggested, central to the 'pure relationships' of our late modern era. It is therefore appropriate that information and communication technologies are supplementing or replacing traditional routes to potentially romantic encounters that have in the past been mediated by the marriage broker, shadkhan or others taking similar roles

Eroticism · Human sexuality · Political science · Polity · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Psychology · Social Psychology

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