Knowing Someone Solely Through Digital Literacy

Vanessa Reinarz, Sharon Reese, and myself (Anneliese Reid) would like to take a stab at doing a project that deals with knowing someone or getting to know someone solely through their digital literacy skills. We aren't going to be focusing so much on facebook and myspace because there is already a group dealing with a project via myspace and facebook. We thought we would focus more on the online dating sites that are out there now.

There are many dating service websites besides Eharmony.com. There have even been commericals released lately that claim that not all of the applicants to Eharmony.com are accepted. What other dating sites are out there and what is the criteria to post a "resume" on these sites. Why are some people getting turned away and some people accepted? Does it have to do with their knowledge of Digital Literacy?

We want to focus on the idea of knowing someone purely in an online space. We also want to examine the prospective interest each different type of person generates and if the number of people interested in each person has anything to do with how Digitally Literate the person is.

Each group member will be responsible for doing considerable amounts of research on different dating sites. We will assign different sites to different people. For example Anneliese would research Eharmony.com and Match.com

We are interested in making an online dating profile (a mock up) on each of the sites. Each one will be different and we will see which of them generate the most attention and examine why. Our project is still in the early phases of preparation. This is just our beginning ideas so we had something to post before tonight. We plan to meet before class on Thursday to go into much more detail and add on to this post by then.