Please note that I ask you to download the academic articles directly from journal homepages. You will likely need to be on campus or logged into to your UM account for the downloads to work.
Week 9
Wednesday, 10/26 - Introduction to the (mini) Course
No reading due
We will meet on zoom (link through the Canvas page)
Friday, 10/28
Complete the Opening Survey by midnight
Week 10
Homework due this week:
1) Love Letters podcast. 2020. "No Ghosts Allowed." 26 minutes. Season 4, Episode 3.
2) Leah E. LeFebvre et al., 2019. "Ghosting in Emerging Adults’ Romantic Relationships: The Digital Dissolution Disappearance Strategy." Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice, Vol. 39(2): 125–150.
3) Allison Stevenson. 2015. "I asked Men Why they Ghosted Me." Vice.com.
Tuesday, 11/1, by midnight
Homework Response and 4 Discussion Questions due
Wednesday, 11/2
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 11
Homework due this week:
1) Ilana Gershon. 2010. The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Introduction, Chapter 1 "Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover," and Chapter 3 "Remediation and Heartache," pages 1-49, and 91-121.
Tuesday, 11/8, by midnight
Homework Response and 4 Discussion Questions due
Wednesday, 11/9
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 12
Homework due this week:
1) Gaby David and Carolina Cambre. 2016. "Screened Intimacies: Tinder and the Swipe Logic." Social Media + Society 2(2): 1-11.
2) Tung-Hui Hu. 2022. Introduction from his Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Tuesday, 11/15, by midnight
Homework Response and 4 Discussion Questions due
Wednesday, 11/16
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 13
No homework and no class meeting because of Thanksgiving Break.
Week 14
Homework due this week:
1) Apryl A. Williams, Zaida Bryant, and Christopher Carvell. 2019. "Uncompensated emotional labor, racial battle fatigue, and (in)civility in digital spaces." Sociology Compass 13(2): 1-12.
2) Lea Rose Emery. 2018. "Women Are Way More Likely To Ghost Than Men — And There's A Very Good Reason For That." Bustle.com
Tuesday, 11/29, by midnight
Homework Response and 4 Discussion Questions due
Wednesday, 11/30
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 15
No new reading or homework due this week. We will use our time together to reflect together about possible conclusions and future questions.
Tuesday, 12/6, by midnight
Complete this Closing Survey
Wednesday, 12/7
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 9
Wednesday, 10/26 - Introduction to the (mini) Course
No reading due
We will meet on zoom (link through the Canvas page)
Friday, 10/28
Complete the Opening Survey by midnight
Week 10
Homework due this week:
1) Love Letters podcast. 2020. "No Ghosts Allowed." 26 minutes. Season 4, Episode 3.
2) Leah E. LeFebvre et al., 2019. "Ghosting in Emerging Adults’ Romantic Relationships: The Digital Dissolution Disappearance Strategy." Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice, Vol. 39(2): 125–150.
3) Allison Stevenson. 2015. "I asked Men Why they Ghosted Me." Vice.com.
Tuesday, 11/1, by midnight
Homework Response and 4 Discussion Questions due
Wednesday, 11/2
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 11
Homework due this week:
1) Ilana Gershon. 2010. The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Introduction, Chapter 1 "Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover," and Chapter 3 "Remediation and Heartache," pages 1-49, and 91-121.
Tuesday, 11/8, by midnight
Homework Response and 4 Discussion Questions due
Wednesday, 11/9
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 12
Homework due this week:
1) Gaby David and Carolina Cambre. 2016. "Screened Intimacies: Tinder and the Swipe Logic." Social Media + Society 2(2): 1-11.
2) Tung-Hui Hu. 2022. Introduction from his Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Tuesday, 11/15, by midnight
Homework Response and 4 Discussion Questions due
Wednesday, 11/16
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 13
No homework and no class meeting because of Thanksgiving Break.
Week 14
Homework due this week:
1) Apryl A. Williams, Zaida Bryant, and Christopher Carvell. 2019. "Uncompensated emotional labor, racial battle fatigue, and (in)civility in digital spaces." Sociology Compass 13(2): 1-12.
2) Lea Rose Emery. 2018. "Women Are Way More Likely To Ghost Than Men — And There's A Very Good Reason For That." Bustle.com
Tuesday, 11/29, by midnight
Homework Response and 4 Discussion Questions due
Wednesday, 11/30
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)
Week 15
No new reading or homework due this week. We will use our time together to reflect together about possible conclusions and future questions.
Tuesday, 12/6, by midnight
Complete this Closing Survey
Wednesday, 12/7
Class meeting on zoom (link through Canvas page)