Up to Date: Communication and Technology in Romantic Relationships - Paperbackby Howie Giles (Other), Stephanie Tom Tong (Author), Brandon Van Der Heide (Author) In Up to Date, Tong and Van Der Heide explore the spicy, unsettling and sometimes just exhausting universe of online romance. Author Biography Stephanie Tom Tong (Ph. D., Michigan State University) is an associate professor of communication at Wayne State University. Her work situated at the intersection of social media and interpersonal communication examines how