Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media

by Ilana Gershon

Book Overview

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, or are status updates just a new version of these old tokens?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477891
• ISBN13: 9780801477898
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher