Ghosting : on disappearance / Dominic Pettman.
| Author/creator | Pettman, Dominic author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge : Hoboken : Polity Press, 2025. |
| Description | xi, 122 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Romantic Ghosting -- Familial and Platonic Ghosting -- Professional and Social Ghosting -- (In)Conclusion - In Lieu of Closure-- Coda - The Ghosting in the Machine. |
| Abstract | "... Ghosting is not only an unpleasant experience, or cowardly act, but a symptom of our increasingly spectral - that is, mediated and virtual - relationship to the world. The overabundance of new modes of communication has invited an almost infinite number of contacts and conversations. At the same time, it has also offered an unprecedented opportunity for ignoring messages from others. And just as we invented the car crash when we invented automobiles, we also encouraged ghosting when we created the internet...This book - the first sustained analysis of ghosting - traces the source of this vexed experience to, and through, our current media ecology, technological networks, political landscape, collective psychology, romantic mantras, and deep sense of social neglect." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-122). |
| ISBN | 9781509569953 |
| ISBN | 9781509569946 hardback |
| ISBN | 1509569944 hardback |
| ISBN | 1509569952 paperback |
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