Florian Busch, Assistant Professor
Institute of German Studies at the University of Bern
June 10, 2025
12:00-1:30pm
MIT Anthropology Classroom, Building E53, Room 354
Smartphones enable social actors to initiate, pause, or resume communication at virtually any time and from almost any location, embedding mobile communication in a wide range of everyday social practices. This workshop takes the ongoing Swiss research project Texting in Time: Communicative Practices of Smartphone Interactions in Process as a point of departure to explore the sociolinguistics of mobile communication, with particular attention to the temporalities and rhythms of everyday messaging.