Overviews
Finkel, E. J., Eastwick, P. W., Karney, B. R., Reis, H. T., & Sprecher, S. (2012). Online dating: a critical analysis from the perspective of psychological science. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13(1), 3-66.
Other works
Arvidsson, A. (2006). ‘Quality singles’: internet dating and the work of fantasy. New Media & Society, 8(4), 671-690.
Barraket, J and Henry-Waring, M. S. (2008). Getting it on(line): Sociological perspectives on e-dating. Journal of Sociology, vol. 44, no. 02, pp.149-165.
Ben-Ze'ev, A. (2004). Love online: Emotions on the Internet. Cambridge University Press.
Best, K., & Delmege, S. (2012). The filtered encounter: online dating and the problem of filtering through excessive information. Social Semiotics, 22(3), 237-258.
Coupland, J. (2000). Past the ‘perfect kind of age’? Styling selves and relationships in over-50s dating advertisements. Journal of Communication 50(3): 9-30.
Davis, M. (2009). Sex, Technology and Public Health. Palgrave Macmillan.
Dillman Carpentier, F. R., Parrott, M. S., & Northup, C. T. (2014). When First Comes Love (or Lust): How Romantic and Sexual Cues Bias First Impressions in Online Social Networking. The Journal of Social Psychology, 154(5), 423-440.
Docan-Morgan, T., & Docan, C. A. (2007). Internet infidelity: Double standards and the differing views of women and men. Communication Quarterly, 55(3), 317-342.
Frohlick, S. and P. Migliardi “Heterosexual Profiling -- Online Dating and ‘Becoming’ Heterosexualities for Women Aged 30 and Older in the Digital Era. Australian Feminist Studies 26(67): 73-88.
Griffin, E. M., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). Online Dating Profile Content of Older Adults Seeking Same-and Cross-Sex Relationships. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 14(5), 446-466.
Hall, J. A. (2014). First comes social networking, then comes marriage? Characteristics of Americans married 2005–2012 who met through social networking sites. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 17(5), 322-326.
Hallam, L., De Backer, C. J., Fisher, M. L., & Walrave, M. (2018). Are Sex Differences in Mating Strategies Overrated? Sociosexual Orientation as a Dominant Predictor in Online Dating Strategies. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 4(4), 456-465.
Hancock, J. T. and C. L. Toma (2009). Putting Your Best Face Forward: The Accuracy of Online Dating Photographs. Journal of Communication 59(2): 367-386.
Hitsch, G. J., Hortaçsu, A., & Ariely, D. (2010). What Makes You Click?—Mate Preferences in Online Dating. Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 8(4), 393-427. 10.1007/s11129-010-9088-6Hjorth L. (2011). ‘It’s Complicated’: A Case Study of Personalisation in an Age of Social and Mobile Media. Communication, Politics & Culture, vol. 44, no. 01, pp. 45-59.
Hjorth, L. (2009). Web U2: Emerging Online Communities and Gendered Intimacy in the Asia-Pacific region. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, vol. 22, pp.117-124
Hobbs, M., Owen, S., & Gerber, L. (2016). Liquid love? Dating apps, sex, relationships and the digital transformation of intimacy. Journal of Sociology, 5.
Jagger, Elizabeth. (2001). Marketing Molly and Melville: Dating in a Postmodern, Consumer Society. Sociology, 35(1).
James, J. L. (2015). Mobile Dating in the Digital Age: Computer-Mediated Communication and Relationship Building on Tinder (Doctoral dissertation, Texas State University).
Khan, K. S., & Chaudhry, S. (2015). An evidence-based approach to an ancient pursuit: systematic review on converting online contact into a first date. Evidence Based Medicine, 20(2), 48-56.
Korchmaros, J. D., Ybarra, M. L., & Mitchell, K. J. (2015). Adolescent online romantic relationship initiation: Differences by sexual and gender identification. Journal of adolescence, 40, 54-64.
Kreager, D. A., Cavanagh, S. E., Yen, J., & Yu, M. (2014). “Where have all the good men gone?” Gendered interactions in online dating. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76(2), 387-410.
Lance, Larry M. (1998). Gender Differences in Heterosexual Dating: A Content Analysis of Personal Ads. Journal of Men’s Studies, 6(3), Spring.
Lange, R., Houran, J., & Li, S. (2015). Dyadic Relationship Values in Chinese Online Daters: Love American Style?. Sexuality & Culture, 19(1), 190-215.
Lawson, H. M., & Leck, K. (2006). Dynamics of internet dating. Social Science Computer Review, 24(2), 189-208.
Malta, S. (2008). Intimacy and older adults: a comparison between online and offline romantic relationships. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA 2008): Re-imagining Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 02-05 December, accessed 31/07/2012, Swinburne Research Bank.
Marley, C. (2000). Beyond the usual: The modification of gender in a British dating ads column. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse 20(3): 271-306.
Marley, C. (2002). Popping the question: questions and modality in written dating advertisements. Discourse Studies 4(1): 75-98.
Mod, G. B. B. (2010). Reading romance: The impact Facebook rituals can have on a romantic relationship. Journal of comparative research in anthropology and sociology, (2), 61-77.
Morgan, E. M., T. C. Richards, et al. (2010). Comparing narratives of personal and preferred partner characteristics in online dating advertisements. Computers in Human Behavior 26(5): 883-888.
Nodin, N., Carballo-Diéguez, A., & Leal, I. M. (2014). Sexual use of the Internet: perceived impact on MSM’s views of self and others. New Media & Society, 16(5), 719-736.
Paul, A. (2014). Is online better than offline for meeting partners? Depends: are you looking to marry or to date?. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 17(10), 664-667.
Ramirez, A., Fleuriet, C., & Cole, M. (2015). When online dating partners meet offline: The effect of modality switching on relational communication between online daters. Journal of Computer‐Mediated Communication, 20(1), 99-114.
Roscoe, P., & Chillas, S. (2014). The state of affairs: critical performativity and the online dating industry. Organization, 21(6), 797-820.
Smaill, B. (2004). Online personals and narratives of the self: Australia's RSVP. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 10(1), 93-107.
Sumter, S. R., Vandenbosch, L., & Ligtenberg, L. (2017). Love me Tinder: Untangling emerging adults’ motivations for using the dating application Tinder. Telematics and Informatics, 34(1), 67-78.
Tither, M. Jacqueline. (2000). Selling yourself and procuring another: Investigating gender differences in NZ dating advertisements. New Zealand English Journal, 14: 66-74.
Toma, C. L. and J. T. Hancock (2010). Looks and Lies: The Role of Physical Attractiveness in Online Dating Self-Presentation and Deception. Communication Research 37(3): 335-351.
Weidman, A. C., Cheng, J. T., Chisholm, C., & Tracy, J. L. (2015). Is she the one? Personality judgments from online personal advertisements. Personal Relationships, 22(4), 591-603.
Whitty, M. T. (2008). Revealing the ‘real’me, searching for the ‘actual’you: Presentations of self on an internet dating site. Computers in Human Behavior, 24(4), 1707-1723.
Whyte, S., & Torgler, B. (2017). Preference Versus Choice in Online Dating. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 20(3), 150-156.
Xia, P., Ribeiro, B., Chen, C., Liu, B., & Towsley, D. (2013, August). A study of user behavior on an online dating site. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (pp. 243-247). ACM.
Xia, P., Tu, K., Ribeiro, B., Jiang, H., Wang, X., Chen, C., ... & Towsley, D. (2014). Characterization of User Online Dating Behavior and Preference on a Large Online Dating Site. In Social Network Analysis-Community Detection and Evolution (pp. 193-217). Springer International Publishing.
Zytko, D., Grandhi, S. A., & Jones, Q. (2014, November). Impression management struggles in online dating. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Supporting Group Work (pp. 53-62). ACM.