Online Dating as A Strategic Game Why and How Men in Hong Kong Use QQ to Chase Women in Mainland China /

• Main Authors: Choi, Maurice Kwok-to (Author), Chan, Kwok-bun (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Communication.; Sociology.; Mass media.; Social Sciences.; Media Research.

Based on a study using online ethnography as the major research method, this book explains why and how men in Hong Kong use QQ—an online instant messenger—to “chase” women in mainland China, especially in the neighboring city of Shenzhen. Chasing women through QQ is a reciprocal exchange process dur...

Table of Contents:

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1 : Introduction
• Chapter 2 : Exchange, Emotions, Intimacy, Masculinities, Love, Money and Cyberlove
• Chapter 3 : Methodology and Internet Research Methods
• Chapter 4 : Invitation to the QQ World
• Chapter 5 : The Beginning of the Chasing Game
• Chapter 6 : The Dramatic Moment of the Chasing Game: When a Man Meets a Woman
• Chapter 7 : The Feelings of the Men: Looking into an Inner World
• Chapter 8 : Conclusion
• Appendix
• References.