The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media, by I liana Gershon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. 232 pp. $22.95 hardcover. ISBN 978-0-80144-859-1 (hardcover)

摘要

Given recent representations of Facebook in popular press, academic journals, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and even the cinema, the larger social, ethical, and cultural implications of this social media platform have mushroomed into mania in the West. The general discussion often attempts to determine what sort of a world and what sort of people these network technologies are bringing into being-the anxiety surrounding the meaning of Facebook can seem both profound and a little absurd, liana Gershon's The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media makes an excellent attempt to get behind the moralizing cultural discourses around social media and begins to explore the real-world effects of social media.