Text Messaging and IM
- 1 September 2007
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
- Vol. 26 (3) , 291-298
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x06303480
Abstract
While instant messaging (IM) via computers is well entrenched in the United States, text messaging on mobile phones is a more recent technology in America. To investigate the emergence of American texting, this study compared text messages and IMs produced by American college students with respect to transmission length, emoticons and lexical shortenings, and sentential punctuation. We examine our findings in light of other statistical studies of texting and IM, and with respect to personal computer use in the United States that predates text messaging.Keywords
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