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The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media
A few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Pins and rings were handy, telling everyone in local communities that you were spoken for, and when you broke up, the absence of a ring let everyone know you were available again. Is being Facebook official really more complicated, o...more
Hardcover, 214 pages
Published
July 2nd 2010
by Cornell University Press
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While this book was funny and entertaining, Gershon's conclusion limits the further exploration that the subject could provide if there were more hard and fast facts to look into. Gershon explores how social media has come to effect our lives and relationships and, in particular, our breakups. However, she simply concludes that so many new medias are changing so quickly that their impact cannot be determined because everyone uses the media in their own way. Simplified - how relationships are aff...more
The author writes, "I am writing about the intersection between disconnection and the media people use to disconnect. I look at what people say about mediated breakups as a starting point for understanding how people think about and use different media" (p. 12). I will use this book in my "Living Life Online" class.
The author introduced me to two new concepts. 1) Second order information: "The background knowledge of a situation and expectations of communication that allows one to interpret the...more
The author introduced me to two new concepts. 1) Second order information: "The background knowledge of a situation and expectations of communication that allows one to interpret the...more
This was interesting, but for me I think something was missing. The author primarily presents observations and analysis of how undergraduates use Facebook during the course of a romantic relationship, but I think the book could have benefitted from more depth. It's hard to put my finger on, but I think what I wanted was more comparison between how these things play out on Facebook vs the real world - maybe more of the psychology behind why we break up with people the way we do. Or perhaps just e...more
The Breakup 2.0 is a funny, smart, compassionate book and a fast and delightful read. The theoretical issues it deals with are interesting: How do we construe, interpret, and negotiate new technologies? Who do we imagine our publics to be as we blog, post on facebook, and reply-to-all? Is there consensus on what it means to text versus online chat? Or more generally, how do we construct (or DO we satisfactorily construct?) social conventions?
Breakup 2.0 is based on a brilliant insight: if you...more
Breakup 2.0 is based on a brilliant insight: if you...more
Gershon offers some interesting points on the idea of remediation with new technology. With that said, it seems that some of the arguments are a bit lacking in terms of conviction. At some points, it also seemed a bit repetitive.
It would have also been interesting to see the exploration of the use of Twitter, but unfortunately, her studies were conducted the year before Twitter became huge.
Personally, I think the rating of 3 stars is a bit low, and would have preferred to rate it as 3.5 had goo...more
It would have also been interesting to see the exploration of the use of Twitter, but unfortunately, her studies were conducted the year before Twitter became huge.
Personally, I think the rating of 3 stars is a bit low, and would have preferred to rate it as 3.5 had goo...more
It's fascinating how profoundly social media is altering our society and how society is reacting to the new forms of interaction brought about by technological change. In Break Up 2.0, Ilana Gershon, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and culture at Indiana University, examines the use of new technological media in the context of relationship break ups. Whether it's breaking up via text message, a change of Facebook status or an email, Gershon explores dating in the digital age.
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Until recently, romantic commitments were all about the tangible: rings, pins, letter jackets. All of these things let people know when a couple was together and when they broke up. But with the advent of social media, the rules are changing. What does it mean to be “Facebook Official,” and what happens when one person in a relationship cancels that status? What are the rules when it comes to breaking up in a 2.0 world?
Gershon is an associate professor at Indiana University, and a few years back...more
Gershon is an associate professor at Indiana University, and a few years back...more
The Breakup 2.0 Book review
Not a how to guide, this book talk about how today’s technologies have influenced our break ups and what is considered a “Good” and “Bad” break up. A funny, smart and delightful little read this book deals with the theoretical issues and the idioms of practice. This book offers an insight to how different communication forms matter and are interpreted.
Not a how to guide, this book talk about how today’s technologies have influenced our break ups and what is considered a “Good” and “Bad” break up. A funny, smart and delightful little read this book deals with the theoretical issues and the idioms of practice. This book offers an insight to how different communication forms matter and are interpreted.
Interesting read about how relationships have changed with social networking. Covers things such as: breaking up via text-messaging, making your new relationship "facebook official" and many other related topics. Would recommend for anyone who uses a lot of social networking and/or texting. Not a guide to breaking up!
This book had an interesting premise, but Gershom severely limited herself by making the book solely about breakups over various media. If you read the first two chapters, you pretty much have already read the rest of it.
Read this book for my Research Methods course. Interesting read, insightful observations from her interviews. Her conclusion could have gone more in depth, it was more of a brief overview. Definitely has made me look at how I interact with technology in my everyday life.
It turns out that this is more a treatment of an idea that, much like a lot of the sociology-type books I've picked up as of late, might be more useful in magazine form. I was done after 24 pages, and it really didn't grab me even a little bit up to that point. Not for me.
I'm also starting to wonder if I'm just not into sociology books at all.
I'm also starting to wonder if I'm just not into sociology books at all.
A very interesting essay on the new social medias and the way the interfere in people's relationships. More or less is about facebook, but there are nice insights into skype or sms.
What a really appreciate is that I got married before facebook, it was sooo much more easier!
THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE PREVIEW!
What a really appreciate is that I got married before facebook, it was sooo much more easier!
THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE PREVIEW!
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