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Email my heart: remediation and romantic break‐ups
Author(s) -
Gershon Ilana
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00627.x
Subject(s) - ideology , narrative , social media , romance , internet privacy , aesthetics , sociology , media studies , political science , computer science , art , literature , law , politics
For the past year, I have been collecting people's stories about how they break‐up using new social technologies ‐ text‐messaging, instant messaging, Facebook, email, voicemail, and so on. These are narratives about how changes in media create new possibilities for disconnecting with others. In telling these stories, people are also being explicit about their media ideologies surrounding what constitutes proper and improper use of new technologies. They are also imagining anew how different and newly introduced media interact with each other, that is, they are re‐evaluating remediation. This article addresses the role media ideologies play in contemporary remediation.