Moving Cultures: Mobile Communication in Everyday Life

by André H. Caron, Letizia Caronia

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.

276 pages, Hardcover

First published April 16, 2007