Language Arts & Disciplines Communication Studies
Moving Cultures
Mobile Communication in Everyday Life
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2007
- Category
- Communication Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773532304
- Publish Date
- Apr 2007
- List Price
- $37.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773532182
- Publish Date
- Apr 2007
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773581210
- Publish Date
- Apr 2007
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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.
About the authors
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.
Letizia Caronia is the author of numerous books, including Media and Everyday Life, and associate professor, education, University of Bologna.