Building relationships : online dating and the new logics of internet culture /

Shepherd, Dawn, 1971-

Building relationships : online dating and the new logics of internet culture / Dawn Shepherd. - 1 online resource (159 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Romantic matchmaking and the marriage apparatus -- Procedural rhetorical analysis of three online dating sites -- Online dating and the construction of subjects -- Online dating, biopower, and discourses of success -- Online dating, marriage, and family in control societies -- Postscript on technologies of matching -- Bibliography.

9781498508582 (e-book)


Online dating.


Electronic books.

HQ801.82 / .S534 2016

306.730285