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Věková homofilie na české online seznamce:

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Topinková R., Šetinová M.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2020
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vol. 56
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issue 4
447-470
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This article examines age homophily on a Czech online dating site using real user data. With a sample of 10 563 unique users and the aid of negative binomial regression, we test two hypotheses based on previous studies of online dating – namely, that men and women show different partner preferences with respect to age and that women in particular favour age homophily in their contacts. The model results support these hypotheses. Men are observed to prefer younger women, while women prefer men who are the same age or older than they are. Given that there are significantly fewer women on the dating site, they are the ones who choose, and the pairing result depends on whether they respond to a contact or not. The youngest women are contacted by men of all ages. Although men contact much younger women, they have a better chance of success with older women. Our conclusions are thus consistent with international research on homophily in the online environment and to some extent the results correspond to patterns of age homogamy in the Czech Republic. Unlike international research, however, the attractiveness of Czech men is found to decrease as they age.
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Aging Adults about Online Dating: “I am back on the relationship market!”

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Erjavec K., ŽILIČ FIŠER S.
Polish Sociological Review
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2016
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vol. 195
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issue 3
361-372
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The incidence of increasing aging populations and the popularity of online dating point to the importance of examining aging adults’ involvement in online dating. The study uses semi-structured in-depth interviews with 38 individuals from Slovenia aged 63 to 74. The analysis reveals than the majority of the participants claimed that they had access to a large market of potential partners by use of online dating. They used economic metaphors and related them with extremely positive expressions of recovery: we are alive again because we are back on the relationship market. Their decision to seek a partner through online dating meant that they were once again active in a socially important space, which stimulated a sense of revitalization. Even though the participants lived the majority of their lives under socialism, they have internalized the principles of the market economy and perceive their re-entry into the relationship market as their revival.
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Homogamie a internet : Pomáhají online seznamky rozumět výběrovému párování

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Šetinová M.
Naše společnost (Our Society)
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2018
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vol. 16
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issue 1
35-55
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Non-random selection of reproductive partners in the human population, i.e. assortative mating, has been a stable occurrence for decades and across societies, including the Czech Republic. Social sciences have paid primary attention to homogamy, marriage between similar partners, also due to its potential impact on society. High levels of homogamy in a society may imply high closedness of the different groups, prevent social mobility, suggest racial tensions, or lead to higher inequality. Three factors are deemed as responsible for homogamy. Structural factors are represented by the partners’ physical closeness as they meet, for example, at school or other institutions. Second, there are individual factors, namely one’s personal preferences for a relationship with someone similar to one. Finally, social factors represent the influence of social groups as they have their own stake in preserving group cohesion through marriage between their members. However, evidence of assortative mating and its mechanisms mostly comes from attitudinal data or questionnaire surveys, which make it difficult to differ between individual and structural factors, among others. In this review article, I focus on the potential of data from online dating sites to help us better understand assortative mating. Is the Internet changing the ways people meet? How does assortative mating work in the online environment and what can it tell us about the mating process in general? The paper starts by presenting the main theories of assortative mating and adding information on the specifics of the online environment. There are basically two contradictory expectations of the effect of the Internet on the mating process. The first group assumes that the easy access to thousands of potential partners across all sociodemographic groups an online dating service provides, plus the absence of direct influence of intermediaries such as community members, will lead to higher diversity of the ensuing marriages. In short, the level of assortative mating will decrease. The opposite expectation is based on the assumption that people generally prefer contact with similar partners and online dating services help them more effectively filter mates by preferred criteria, thus avoiding contact with people who do not fit their expectations. As a result, assortative mating will grow. The theory section is followed by a review of contemporary international research of online dating services with regard to assortative mating. I conclude the detailed review by arguing that the human preference for similar partners occurs in the online environment as well, and therefore, assortative mating likely cannot be explained by structural factors only. Moreover, all points to the fact that data from real-life user interaction in online dating services can importantly widen our knowledge of assortative mating.
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Pseudonimy na portalu randkowym. Analiza semantyczna wybranych nazw

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Ozimska J. I.
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio FF – Philologia
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2019
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vol. 37
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issue 2
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This paper presents online dating-site nicknames created by Polish-speaking users. After a theoretical introduction about comments on the functioning of dating sites, terminological considerations about the online nickname against other anthroponyms, and the presentation of the nicknames’ functions in relation to the current classification of the functions of literary works’ titles found in translation literature, the results of the study were presented, which included over 30,000 real names out of 1.3 million existing logins. The analysis has revealed that the classification proposed by Bechar-Israeli is still valid. Nicknames belong to the following main categories: pertaining to a person’s self: first names, character traits or physical appearance; related to literature, fairy tales, characters from films, plays, and television; named after famous people; related to flora and fauna; related to the medium, technology, computer names; containing play with language and typography; sex-related and provocative. The list of excerpted names contained a huge number of nicknames influenced by English or derived from anthroponyms.
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Celem artykułu jest analiza pseudonimów internetowych (nicków) tworzonych przez użytkowników polskiego portalu randkowego. Po wstępie teoretycznym obejmującym uwagi dotyczące funkcjonowania portali randkowych, rozważania terminologiczne na temat pseudonimu internetowego na tle innych antroponimów oraz przedstawieniu funkcji pseudonimów w nawiązaniu do obecnych w literaturze przekładoznawczej klasyfikacji funkcji tytułów dzieł literackich, zaprezentowano wyniki badania, któremu poddano ponad 30.000 realnych nazw spośród 1,3 mln istniejących loginów. Analiza semantyczna pozwoliła na wyodrębnienie następujących kategorii, nawiązujących do modelu zaproponowanego przez H. Bechar-Israeli: nazwy zawierające prawdziwe imię; związane z własną osobą; odnoszące się do medium, technologii i ich właściwości; związane z florą, fauną i obiektami nieożywionymi; wykorzystujące zabawy słowne; nawiązujące do postaci literackich, filmowych, bajkowych oraz do znanych osób; odnoszące się do seksu i prowokacyjne. Zgromadzony materiał potwierdził tezę o niewielkiej kreatywności bywalców portali randkowych, korzystających w akcie nominacji z dużą częstotliwością z derywowanych odatroponimicznie loginów zawierających dla odróżnienia liczebniki, jak również posługujących się w dużej mierze językiem angielskim.
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Fenomen social dating: strategie autoprezentacji

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Karpova H.
Zoon Politikon
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2020
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issue 11
200-231
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In recent years, the use of online dating platforms has evolved from a marginal to a widespread social practice. The online dating arena provides an opportunity to investigate changing cultural norms concerning technology-mediated relationship formation and to shed light on such aspects of online behavior as the impression formation process and self-presentation strategies. A field experiment was focused on self-presentation strategies and tactics among online dating participants, investigating how participants' sex effects on managing their online presentation of self in order to accomplish the goal of enhancing their level of attractiveness. After conducting a pilot study, was collected 200 text-based profiles (100 women, 100 men) from the online dating service “Sympatia.pl” and examined through them with respect to strategies type.
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Przedmiotem artykułu jest przegląd piśmiennictwa poświęconego tematyce wirtualnej autoprezentacji oraz próba określenia najczęściej stosowanych strategii i taktyk autoprezentacyjnych na portalu Sympatia.pl. Kolejne cele pracy polegają na sprawdzeniu, jak płeć użytkownika wpływa na kształtowanie jego wirtualnego wizerunku za pomocą językowych środków wyrazu. Na potrzebę badania przeanalizowano 200 opisów (100 profili mężczyzn, 100 profili kobiet), zaprezentowane wyniki pokazują dominujące postawy autoprezentacyjne oraz aktualne tendencje w wyborze sposobu autoprezentacji pod względem płci.
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