Cyberspace Romance The Psychology of Online Relationships

This book focuses on online relationships and specifically cyber-flirting; the authors examine how flirting offline can be transferred to an Internet setting, through their own empirical and theoretical research. The authors draw from psychoanalytic theory to provide a better understanding of cyber-flirting, online dating, and relationships on the Internet.

Monica Whitty is Lecturer in Psychology at Queens University Belfast. Adrian Carr is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the School of Applied Social & Human Sciences, at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Overview * Cyber-relationships: The Story So Far * Cyber-Flirting * Playing at Love: Winnicott and Potential Space * Embodied Responses to Technology: Applying Bollas' theory to Cyberspace * How Liberated Are We Really Online? * Online Dating: Shopping for Love on the Internet * Characters in Cyberspace * Visions of the Future * Overview * Cyber-relationships: The Story So Far * Cyber-Flirting * Playing at Love: Winnicott and Potential Space * Embodied Responses to Technology: * Applying Bollas' Theory to Cyberspace * How Liberated Are We Really Online? * Online Dating: Shopping for Love on the Internet * Characters in Cyberspace * Visions of the Future