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Scripts for Online Dating: A Model and Theory of Online Romantic Relationship Initiation

Long, Bridget L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1268852623

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2010, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Communication Studies.
This study examined online dating practices by exploring the process and scripts for online dating from both sites and site members. The purpose was to uncover how online daters and sites were responsible for changes from more traditional dating scripts, and to add to Script Theory and Social Information Processing Theory. Ethnographic content analysis of online dating sites and in-depth interviews with online daters were conducted to develop a Model for Online Dating and Online Romantic Initiation Theory. The model presented in this study demonstrated how scripts in the online dating process were reciprocal and how the different levels of scripts worked together. This study also added to knowledge of contemporary courtship and decision-making in terms of love styles, shopping lists, elimination strategies and how singles relate to others.
Sandra Faulkner (Committee Chair)
Thomas Mascaro (Committee Member)
Sung-Yeon Park (Committee Member)
Monica Longmore (Committee Member)
Deborah Wooldridge (Committee Member)
298 p.
Communication; Personal Relationships; Social Psychology
online dating; romantic relationships; relational communication; computer-mediated communication; online romantic relationship initiation; Social Information Processing Theory; Script Theroy

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  • Long, B. L. (2010). Scripts for Online Dating: A Model and Theory of Online Romantic Relationship Initiation [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1268852623

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Long, Bridget. Scripts for Online Dating: A Model and Theory of Online Romantic Relationship Initiation. 2010. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1268852623.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Long, Bridget. "Scripts for Online Dating: A Model and Theory of Online Romantic Relationship Initiation." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1268852623

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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