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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear Colleagues,<br>
I hope you will be tolerant of the fact that I am writing about my
recent publication. So many<br>
students have asked me about how people use new media to breakup
with each other these days<br>
that I decided to do a followup study of my 2007-2008 research.<br>
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I published the results this summer in a journal that isn't often
on linguistic anthropologists' radar,<br>
so I thought I would send around this article in case you have
students who<br>
would like to know about this. And since this article<br>
is behind a firewall, you can find it on h-commons too.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>The Breakup 2.1: The Ten Year Update</b> --- <br>
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href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2020.1798316">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2020.1798316</a><br>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">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.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><b>H-Commons</b>:
<a href="https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32343"
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Best,</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Ilana<br>
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