On this website you´ll find a find a fine collection of articles concerning long distance and bi-cultural relationships. Select in themes the subject that you are interested in, or click on articles to see all articles.
Please feel free to send me your comments, experiences, articles, and please forward it to your friends or family that may be going though a similar situation.
En este sitio encontrarás una fina selección de artículos sobre relaciones a distancia y biculturales. Selecciona en themes el tema que te interesa o haz click en articles para ver todos los artículos.
Sientánse libres de enviarme sus comentarios, experiencias o artículos. No olviden mandarla a esos amigos que están pasando por una relación o a distancia o bicultural, talvez los pueda ayudar a entender y salir adelante con la relación.
Auf dieser Seite finden Sie eine Auswahl wissenschaftlicher Artikel über Fernbeziehungen und bikulturelle Partnerschaften. Bitte wählen Sie bei themes ein Thema aus oder klicken Sie auf articles um alle Artikeln angezeigt zu bekommen. Wenn Sie sich in einer derartigen Fern- oder bikulturellen Beziehung befinden und sich über Ihre Erfahrungen austauschen möchten, zögern Sie nicht, mir Ihre Kommentare, Erfahrungen oder Texte zu schicken!
The Global Chaos of Love. Public Lecture by Urlich Beck and Lynn Jamieson
“Cosmopolitan love is a condition and not necessarily a consciousness”. In this public lecture at the London School of Economics, Urlich Beck analyses the concepts of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitisation, explores new kinds of relationships across borders and the methodology to approach them from a sociological perspective. Beck explains as well, the role of the woman and the sexual division of labor immerse in the new chaos of love.
Listen the Lecture here: The Global Chaos of Love. Recorded on: 23 February 2011
Speaker(s): Professor Ulrich Beck, Professor Lynn Jamieson.
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17.08.11 | conflict, economy, identity, inmigration, long distance relationship, love, sociology |
Association of Binational Families and Partnerships and Loveandculture.net
I´m now part of the board of directors in the Cologne´s Association of Binational Families and Partnerships! (Verband bikultureller Familien und Partnerschaften). This association represents the interests of binational families and partnerships throughout Germany. We support the social and legal equality of people regardless of their skin color or their cultural origin. We work as a non-profit organization in more than 20 cities in and outside of Germany. Counseling women and men regarding all issues of binational marriages and relationships is one focus of our work. We use legal restrictions and the various forms of disadvantage and discrimination as an opportunity to inform the public and to provide a basis for dialogue between the organization and the federal government. One of our most important tasks is to highlight the chances and possibilities that arise when people of different cultures live together. In doing so, we rely on the experience of our members and pass on this knowledge in the form of publications, events, and training courses. We want to contribute to a culture of acceptance with various projects on intercultural topics.
Website and Contact: http://www.verband-binationaler.de
30.01.11 | |
How the Internet enables intimacy
Stefana Broadbent’s research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules. See Video here: Lecture: How the Internet enables intimacy – Stefana Broadbent
11.12.10 | | Comments
Bottle: Video animation about a long distance relationship (by Kirsten Lepore)
Animated on location at a beach, in snow, and underwater, this stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle.
Watch video here: Bottle, by Kirsten Lepore
15.10.10 | | Comments
Love through Computer-Mediated Communication
Almond Pilar N. Aguila shares with us a research about couples at the distance, their ways of communication and their perception about them. She investigates how do new media (the Internet and mobile phone) re-shape the long-distance relationships of OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) and their left-behind loved ones.
It is a very interesting paper, theoretically guided by Marshall McLuhan
and Stuart Hall, that presents three case studies – married, heterosexual and homosexual – that depict how individuals mindfully use communication technology to enact their relationships. Such interactions also entail the exchange of new ideas on gender roles, family relations, and dominant-subordinate roles that lead to cultural change. Read the complete document: Almond Aguila. Living Long-Distance Relationships through Computer-Mediated Communication
23.04.10 | economy, long distance relationship, new technologies | Comments
The Economics of Long-Distance Relationships
This paper starts by exploring some of the statistical and qualitative evidence on long-distance relationships, and then examines a few economic models of households split due to migration. Further on, David Karp, constructs a simple model of a university student choosing whether to enter a long-distance relationship or not. The author finds out that long-distance relationships tend to increase with income and preferences favouring consumption are consistent with the findings of the majority of split-household migration models, which find money is the underlying reason for a long-distance relationship occurring. When the potential financial gains from a long-distance relationship exceed the cost to the relationship, a couple will enter a long-distance relationship… Read here the complete paper: Karp, David. The Economics of Long-Distance Relationships (PDF, 151Kb)
15.04.10 | economy, long distance relationship, statistics, students | Comments
Togetherness through Virtual Worlds
Virtual worlds play a very important role in social interactions nowadays. People use these environments as a resource to meet friends and family at remote locations, in order to shorten physical distance. Until now there is not a generally accepted theory of presence, since the scientific research into this subject is considered to be in its initial stage.The present work analyzed the sense of physical presence and togetherness experienced by users of two different platforms available on the internet: iSpQ Videochat and ActiveWorlds, by interviewing them about these subjects. The answers obtained from users are quite interesting. Read complete paper: Togetherness through Virtual Worlds (PDF, 124Kb)
15.04.10 | | Comments
How to Tell If Your Long Distance Relationship is at Risk
Lately, I have notice a lot of frustration and indifference from close friends that are going through a Long Distance Relationship. The distance is a significant factor, but also the lack of common goals or plans for the future. It is difficult to help them or to say if it is going to work or not, it depends on their effort and priorities in life. I found this interesting questionnaire that helps to determine how difficult an LDR could be and will help pinpoint areas within the person and within the relationship that may be particularly at risk from the separation.
Read it here: The Separation Inventory
2.05.09 | | Comments
Feminist Views of Cybersex: Victimization, Liberation, and Empowerment
“Cybersex can be defined as a social interaction between at least two persons who are exchanging real time digital messages in order to become sexually aroused and satisfied. This article first describes video- and text-based cybersex as a new kind of sexual encounter with its own particularities. Then the feminist literature on cybersex is reviewed revealing two basic perspectives: The victimization perspective interprets cybersex as a heterosexist practice, and focuses on how women and girls as individuals and as a group are harmed by online-harassment, virtual rape and cyber-prostitution. The liberation perspective, in contrast, focuses on the options computer-mediated communication offers women and girls who actively seek sexual pleasure online. From that viewpoint, cybersex frees females to explore their sexualities more safely and to enjoy more sex, better sex and different sex”.
This article, from Nicola Döring , criticizes both the victimization and the liberation perspective and offers an integrative empowerment perspective that acknowledges power discourse as an essential sexual issue online and off.
Read the complete paper here: Döring, N. (2000). Feminist Views of Cybersex: Victimization, Liberation, and Empowerment. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 3 (5), 863-884.
11.03.09 | cybersex, intimacy, new technologies, woman | Comments [1]
And what about the Gay Long Distance Relationships? (GLDR)
We always talk about how difficult the LDRs are, but there are special kinds of LDR that make them even more complex. This is the case of the Gay Long Distance Relationships. I know many cases of GLDR, however there are not many articles in the web talking about that. In the following article Ivi writes about her experience of a bicultural 4-year long relationship at the distance with another woman. Read the complete article here: And what about the Gay Long Distance Relationships?
25.02.09 | homosexuality, long distance relationship | Comments
