MIT Department of Anthropology

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MIT Anthropology

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Jun 10, 2025

Screening the Flow of Smartphone Communication: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Digital Temporalities

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.