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What is Texting

Chapter 76
Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
Also called text messaging, is a text-based (rather than spoken) method of digital communication. Text messages are sent through mobile phones directly to one or more recipient(s).
Published in Chapter:
Connecting 'Round the Clock: Mobile Phones and Adolescents' Experiences of Intimacy
Emily Weinstein (Harvard University, USA) and Katie Davis (University of Washington, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8239-9.ch076
Abstract
Mobile phone ownership is approaching ubiquity among contemporary adolescents and smartphone adoption continues to rise, affording unprecedented opportunities for social connection. Adolescents connect via text messaging and social media apps to sustain communication – often throughout their waking hours – with offline ties. Through both casual exchanges and intimate self-disclosure, adolescents reinforce and develop offline friendships and romantic relationships. Youth marginalized or socially isolated offline can also transcend geographic barriers and connect with new communities. However, digital technologies pose challenges to achieving intimate connections and online expression can complicate or even threaten offline relationships.
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Chapter 8
The Implications of Text-Messaging for Language Learning
Reduced spelling of words characterised by abbreviations and phonemic forms which reflect the sound system associated with the original English word. Usually sent from a mobile phone using the short message service (SMS).
Published in Chapter: The Implications of Text-Messaging for Language Learning; From: English Language Teaching in a Post-Method Paradigm
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Chapter 74
Use of Mobile Phones to Help Prevent Child Maltreatment
Any short message service (SMS) used to deliver components of an intervention.
Published in Chapter: Use of Mobile Phones to Help Prevent Child Maltreatment; From: Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
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Chapter 20
Instant Messaging and Texting
Sending short messages between mobile devices using short messaging service (SMS). Unlike instant messaging, which requires users to be signed-in on the same application, any mobile device enabled with SMS can receive a text from any with a similarly enabled mobile device.
Published in Chapter: Instant Messaging and Texting; From: Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media
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Chapter 83
Text Messaging in Social Protests
The act of composing and sending a short electronic message (maximum of 160 words) between two or more mobile phones. A sender of a text message is referred to as a texter.
Published in Chapter: Text Messaging in Social Protests; From: Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
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Chapter 30
Texting and Christian Practice
The act of composing and sending a short electronic message (maximum of 160 words) between two or more mobile phones. A sender of a text message is referred to as a texter .
Published in Chapter: Texting and Christian Practice; From: Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
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Chapter 7
Digital Distractions, Note-Taking, and Student Learning
Using a mobile device to send or receive a text message.
Published in Chapter: Digital Distractions, Note-Taking, and Student Learning; From: Digital Distractions in the College Classroom
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Chapter 44
Mobile Phone Use by Middle School Students
Text-based messaging.
Published in Chapter: Mobile Phone Use by Middle School Students; From: Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
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