Social Controls on Meetic, the Online Dating Website

By Laurie Beunet
English

The nature of sexual transactions on a dating website are varied and are being monitored. Based on field work within the Meetic's Customer Care Service, this paper analyzes the organization of work organization around social values related to online sexual or romance dating and allows us to see, from a European perspective, an aspect of online social control.

Keywords

  • social control
  • online dating website
  • internet
  • norms
  • socialization
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