AbstractsPsychology

Cyber Love

by Karolina Curova




Institution: Roskilde University
Department:
Year: 2015
Keywords: Cyber love; love; Appadurai; Cyberspace; Ben Ze'ev; Constable; Whitty; Carr; Aristophanes; Symposium; Plato; Singer; Sternberg; Nozick; relationships; soulmate
Record ID: 1121037
Full text PDF: http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/20356


Abstract

This project report revolves around the concept of love as a notion and how theorists, psychologists and researchers throughout time have presented different perspectives of it. Due to globalization and the rapid development of technology, meeting online has become common in the contemporary Western society. The way people interact and seek for love has altered, therefore the focus of this project will be on the concept of cyber-love. Theories on the differences between the online and offline love will be presented, followed by the viewpoints of individuals who have encountered cyber romantic relationships.