Online Matchmaking

List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes On Contributors - Introduction; M.T.Whitty - PART 1: DEFINING ONLINE MATCHMAKING - From the BBS to the Web: Tracing the Spaces of Online Romance; D.N.DeVoss - Cyborgasms: Ten Years On and Not Enough Learned; R.Hamman - Scripting the Rules for Mars and Venus: Advice Literature and Online Dating; S.Paasonen - PART 2: PRESENTATION OF SELF TO ATTRACT LOVERS - The Art of Selling One's 'Self' on an Online Dating Site: The BAR Approach; M.T.Whitty - Examining Personal Ads and Job Ads; A.Horning - How Do I Love Thee and Thee and Thee: Self-presentation, Deception, and Multiple Relationships Online; J.M.Albright - PART 3: ONLINE DATING PROGRESSION TO FACE-TO-FACE: SUCCESS OR FAILURE? - Expressing Emotion in Text: Email Communication of Online Couples; A.J.Baker - A Progressive Affair: Online Dating to Real World Mating; K.Y.A.McKenna - PART 4: DARKER SIDES OF ONLINE DATING - Cyber-Stalking as (Mis)Matchmaking; B.H.Spitzberg & W.R.Cupach - Cyber-Victimization and Online Dating; R.A.Jerin & B.Dolinsky - PART 5: ONLINE DATING SUB-GROUPS - Sexual Orientation Moderates Online Sexual Activities; R.M.Mathy - Whips and Chains? Fact or Fiction?: Content Analysis of Sadomasochism in Internet Personal Advertisements; D.K.Wysocki & J.Thalken - Conclusion: M.T.Whitty - Author Index - Subject Index

MONICA T. WHITTY is Lecturer in Psychology at Queens University Belfast, UK. She lectures on cyber-psychology, social psychology and qualitative methods. Her major research interests include online dating, cyber-relationships, Internet infidelity, identity, misrepresentation of self-online, cyber-stalking, cyber-ethics, and Internet and email surveillance in the workplace. She is author of Cyberspace Romance (with Adrian N. Carr). ANDREA J. BAKER is a Sociology Professor at Ohio University, USA. She has studied online relationships since 1997, collecting data for the 1998 paper,