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The Breakup 2.0 - Chicago Humanities Festival

Ilana Gershon: The Breakup 2.0

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  • ABOUT Ilana Gershon

    Ilana Gershon is an assistant professor at Indiana University in the Department of Communications and Culture. Her latest book, The Break-Up 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media, discusses the use of different technological communication mediums, such as text message or email, in romantic relationships.

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“Breaking up is hard to do,” the old song goes, but is that still the case in a world of text messaging and Facebook? Of course new technologies are changing our behaviors, but how exactly, and with what consequences? Indiana University anthropologist and communications professor Ilana Gershon researches how new media affect our intimate relationships. Join her as she discusses the findings of her new book, The Breakup 2.0, the first academic study of heartbreak in the digital age, with Madeline Nusser of TimeOut Chicago.

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This program is presented in partnership with the College Arts & Humanities Institute at Indiana University.

The 2011 programs at the UIC Forum are sponsored in part by the Chicago Community Trust.

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  • leaders & thinkers

    Web Ilana Gershon's webpage, as well as her further research that's being done.

  • good reads

    ReviewReview of Ilana Gershon's book: The Breakup 2.0

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    Digital Ethics The center for digital ethics and policy.

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