◆ Studying Teens and the Internet . . . This study on dating and the Internet emerged out of a broader qualitative study on the role of media technologies in the domestic context of the household. 1 Over the course of a year, I conducted a series of inter- views and observations with 15 families and two focus groups, devoting between 4 and much more than 30 hours of conversation, observation, or both to each family. A total of 47 teens and 26 of their family members were included in the interviews, groups, and observations. An additional six families (14 teens) were interviewed by an associate researcher on the project, who has corroborated my findings. From the families interviewed, three teenagers were selected for the further study of Internet use: Elizabeth, a 15-year-old white female from a lower-income single-parent household; Jake, a 17-year-old white male 696 ◆ 68 ◆ Lynn Schofield Clark DATING ON THE NET Teens and the Rise of “Pure” Relationships NOTE: From CyberSociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community, edited by Steven G. Jones, 1998, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Copyright © 1998 by Sage Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.