[Linganth] updating my mediated breakup research

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
I hope you will be tolerant of the fact that I am writing about my 
recent publication.  So many
students have asked me about how people use new media to breakup with 
each other these days
that I decided to do a followup study of my 2007-2008 research.

I published the results this summer in a journal that isn't often on 
linguistic anthropologists' radar,
so I thought I would send around this article in case you have students who
would like to know about this.   And since this article
is behind a firewall, you can find it on h-commons too.
*
**The Breakup 2.1: The Ten Year Update* ---
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2020.1798316

Abstract: Since 2007–2008, American undergraduates’ media ecology has 
changed dramatically without an accompanying transformation in how they 
use media to end relationships. The similarities in people’s breakup 
practices between 2008 and 2018 reveal that, regardless of what social 
media is used, American undergraduates turn to media in moments of 
breakup as ways to manage three complicated aspects of ending a 
relationship: untangling all the ways in which people signal intertwined 
lives, deciphering the quotidian unknowable of another person’s mind, 
and trying to control who knows what when. This paper explores how rapid 
shifts in media ecologies may change the ways in which 
conventionalization around social practices emerges, leading to more 
norms oriented around what all media accomplish, rather than generating 
norms around the affordances of a specific medium.

*H-Commons*: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/nwkw-2383 
<https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32343>

Best,

Ilana


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