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The interruption of personal interaction, even the most intimate, by a ringing cell phone has profoundly affected social behaviour. New communication technologies transform culture - but the revers...
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01 May 2011
André Caron and Letizia Caronia look at teenagers' use of text messaging to chat, flirt, and gossip. They find that messaging among teens has little to do with sending shorthand information quickly. Instead, it is a verbal performance through which young people create culture. Moving Cultures argues that teenagers have domesticated and reinterpreted this technology.
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Date:
01 May 2011
ISBN: 9780773581210
Format: eBook
BISACs:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
André H. Caron is a professor of communications and the Bell Chair and director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Emerging Technologies (CITÉ) at Université de Montréal. He is the author of numerous publications on the appropriation of infor