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ETEC 523: Assignment 1

Analytical Publishing Project

Ghosting

Neoliberalism, Affect Labor, & Moral Relativism

Glossary

Identification

Varieties

GHOSTER

GHOSTED

Research

The User Unconscious (Clough, 2018)

Media, Capitalism, BioDigital Cognition Exterioriation & Viral Affect Machine (Narr, 2021)

Shifting communications media & interaction patterns (Daraj, et al, 2023)

Future Trends

Education

AI

Mobile Technology

KLG,2024

ghosting

the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.

MORALLY AMBIGUOUS BEHAVIOR, PERMITTED ONLY FOR REASONS OF SAFETY AND ABUSE.

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focus question:

While ostracization is not a new cultural phenomenon, has open and mobile technology made avoidance easier for modern social media users?

Ghost Glossary

Digital relationship terminology

Serial/Chronic Ghoster: someone who has ghosted 3+ peoplePartial Ghosting: rarely keeps in touch, takes long to reply Soft Ghosting: messages are liked but not responded to with content Orbiting: Ex relationships are maintained in digital space without meaningful physical contactBenching: Someone keeps you as back up when they are interested in someone else. Stashing: Partners are not introduced to the inner circle of the other person Breadcrumbing: manipulating means of pretending to be interested in developing in a relationship but in reality are not Mutual Ghosting: both people disappear frome each other's lives Slow Fading: gradually decrease contact until all communication has ceased Haunting: the return of a ghoster without acknowledging the previous ghosting Phubbing: checking one's phone while engaged in conversation with another person

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Identification

When Is it ghosting?

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Ghost Varieties

Romantic

Family

Online DatingLong-term Relationship

Extended FamilyImmediate Family

Professional

Medical

Job ApplicationsColleagues

Service ProviderClient

Platonic

Social Media

Long-term FriendsAcquaintances

Community ForumsChat

ghoster: sudden unexplained departure

Good, Bad & Ugly

Why do people ghost?

People with FOMO are more likely to ghost.

Busy Selfish Cowardice Avoidance of Pain Flight Vs Fight Digital Justification Digital Avoidance & Escapism Fear of Engagement & Conflict Emotionally Immature Dominant departure technique Unwilling to commit to one belief Tech induced anonymity Reduced accountability Unlimited options with online dating

22% of people admit to ghosting others

THE GOOD

• Healthy to limit online contact
• Easier

The BAD

• Critical keyboard behavior
• Neurological habit formation

The UGLY

• Dark Triad Traits: Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psychopathy

Ghosters may ignore you face to face or simply vanish from your physical real life. Digitally speaking, they may stop calling or answering calls, stop texting or acknowledging texts, untag from photos, status change, unfriend mutual friends or block you.

ghosted: abandoned without explanation

Good, Bad & Ugly

Why do people get ghosted?

Tolerance for ambiguity vs closure

Human Need to Belong Validation Theory Attachment Theory Confusion Genuine concern to psycho stalker Lack of Closure Epidemic of loneliness Cult of Self Esteem Social Pain of Rejection Mental Health Reprecussions Fixed versus Growth Mindset Acceptance & letting go Powerlessness

13-23% of people have been ghosted

THE GOOD

• Filter out incompatible people
• Johari's Window (blind spots shown)

The BAD

• Painful social rejection
• Epidemic of loneliness

The UGLY

• Stalker & ghoster creator
• Toxic & normalized societal cycle

How to deal with being ghosted?

"Legally Blocked," White Christmas, Black Mirror, Youtube

How to deal with getting ghosted

Educational Value

Socioemotional Learning (SEL)

Affective learning theory

Social constructivism

Practice self and social awareness & management, relationship building, decision making skills.

Develop resiliency & coping strategies, emotional motivation, emotional regulation & empathy.

Apply social norms & expectations, narratives, power dynamics, relationships.

digital & Social media affordancess

Literacy Campaign

communication & Conversationalism

Enhance communication, truth & justice through mobile technology & social media

Build assertive speaking & active listening practice, develop vocabulary to disagree amicably.

Create experiences to cater to digital, media, literary, emotional, social literacies, experiences & intelligences.

Mobile technology

instant gratification & hyperindividualism

blue tooth

critical keyboard Syndrome

location indicator

swipe & Block culture

disrupts time & space

quick response expecation

digital identity & rejection

cancel & replacement culture

what is EDIDA?

EDIDA affordances to communicate freely

neoliberal algorithms of consumption & choice

sound bytes vs idiolect

Artificial Intelligence

• AI algorithms influence on User Unconscious
• Digitally controlled narratives
• Automated prompts
• Automated responses
• Response reminders
• Redesign dating APPs (ghost recovery software)
• BOTS on dating APPS
• BOTS & AI as our new friends & lovers

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• Make AI friend
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Kirsten Gear

Online Instructor & TESOL Coordinator

Kirsten has been an online educator for social justice active in online education since 2009. She has worked in international tertiary curriculum development and language education since 2000. She spent 20 years overseas in a dozen countries speaking half a dozen languages and currently studying Ktunaxa, a local Indigenous language.

She has three tertiary academic degrees and half a dozen professional certificates qualifying her to work in a variety of fields, including project management, education, research, recruitment, training and development. She is working on her 4th degree, a Master's of Educational Technology from UBC, Vancouver, for which this project is an assignment for ETEC 523, her 9th course in the MET program She is a published author, researching digital literacy, webquests and idiolect.

She has been ghosted.

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