Love and technology are presented as a field within a global social problems framework. The volume surveys how digital platforms, algorithmic systems, and connected devices shape intimate life, affection, and partnership across varied cultural and economic contexts. It considers how people meet, court, form attachments, and sustain relationships in online and hybrid environments, and how technologies mediate care and family life. The discussion includes dating apps, online communications, wearable interfaces, and emerging AI-enabled companions as sites where opportunity, risk, and misunderstanding intersect. Across regions and populations, the volume attends to how access, literacy, and cultural norms influence experiences of romance in a digital era. Topics include power dynamics, gendered expectations, race and class effects, and questions