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The Inside Text Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS

:	R. Harper, L. Palen, A. Taylor
:	The Inside Text Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9781402030604
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:	CHF 115.70
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:	Allgemeines, Lexika
:	English

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SMS or Text is one of the most popular forms of messaging. Yet, despite its immense popularity, SMS has remained unexamined by science. Not only that, but the commercial organisations, who have been forced to offer SMS by a demanding public, have had very little idea why it has been successful. Indeed, they have, until very recently, planned to replace SMS with other messaging services such as MMS.

This book is the first to bring together scientific studies into the values that 'texting' provides, examining both cultural variation in countries as different as the Philippines and Germany, as well as the differences between SMS and other communications channels like Instant Messaging and the traditional letter. It presents usability and design research which explores how SMS will evolve and what is likely to be the pattern of person-to-person messaging in the future. In short,The Inside Text is a fundamental resource for anyone interested in mobile communications at the start of the 21^st Century.

9 Mobile Communications vis-à-vis Teen Emancipation, Peer Group Integration and Deviance (S.177)

Rich Ling

Introduction The mobile telephone – often in the form of SMS – provides teens with a rich social life. It is used to coordinate activities and hold peer groups together. It is used as a symbolic umbilical cord to connect teens with their parents and it is a device through which teen’s emancipation is mediated. Indeed, teens’ adoption of the mobile telephone – and their intense use of SMS – is one of the surprises surrounding the technology. Reports from Japan (Hashimoto 2002), Finland (Kasesniemi and Rautiainen 2002), the general European scene (Mante-Meijer and al. 2001), the UK (Harper 2003) the Philippines (Ellwood-Clayton 2003) and of course Norway (Ling 2000; Ling 2001b; Ling and Helmersen 2000; Ling and Yttri 2003) all point in this direction. This point is also made in the chapters in this collection.

Emancipation, peer acceptance and the testing of various behaviors are a complex of activities that characterize adolescence. During adolescence, there is a strong motivation for teens to establish themselves as independent social actors who are outside the sphere of their parents. Indeed, emancipation from one’s parents is one of the central issues for teens. The dynamic nature of modern society means that teens will emerge into a society that is at least somewhat different than that of their parents. Thus, the approach one takes to emancipation will be different from that of previous generations. This is simply because – unlike the situation in traditional societies – the situation changes from generation to generation. The skills needed, the technologies used and the educational background upon which one relies change and develop across generations. Because of this, the teen is an active agent in shaping his or her own socialization (Glaser and Strauss 1971, 57 – 88). During this period, the peer group plays a central role in this transition. It provides the teen with a group in which he or she can help to decide on activities and where he or she can take part in establishing the fashion and mode of the group.

The peer group also helps one to work out a relationship to the various facets of adult life. This includes issues such as sexuality, forms of consumption, relationship to authority and degrees of social/normative deviance. Where the parents can provide the teen with an ordered sense of life, the peer group provides the teen with a sphere in which he or she can assert control and participate more fully in decision making (Giordano 1995; Harter 1990; see also Savin-Williams and Berndt 1990; Youniss 1980; Youniss and Smollar 1985).

The peer group provides teens with a sphere of life wherein they can experience reciprocal self-disclosure and emotional support outside family units. According to Fine, the peer group is protective of its members and it is active in the development of an ideoculture, that is, a whole system of nicknames, jokes, styles of clothing, songs, artifacts etc. (1987, 126).

	Table of Contents	7
	Contributors	13
	Inside Text: an introduction	15
	Richard Harper, Leysia Palen and Alex Taylor	15
	References	19
	Section One: Text versus Talk	22
	1 Changing Cultures of Written Communication: Letter – E-mail – SMS	23
	Introduction	23
	Forms and functions of ‘letter-like’ communication – empirical findings	26
	The changing of medial practices – some theoretical reflections	36
	References	42
	2 Language in SMS – a socio-linguistic view	47
	Introduction	47
	The communicative setting of mobile text messaging	48
	Written or spoken language in mobile text messaging?	49
	Previous studies of mobile text messaging	50
	Data and Methods	52
	Results	54
	Conclusions	63
	References	64
	3 Please reply! The replying norm in adolescent SMS communication	67
	Introduction	67
	The reply obligation to the initiating SMS	68
	The deviating sequence	71
	The continuing sequence	78
	Alternative replying options: when the SMS is responded to with a telephone call	79
	SMS messages which do not require a response	82
	Chain messages	82
	Night time messages	83
	Messages as a P.S. to a telephone call	83
	Conclusion	85
	References	86
	4 Nascent Communication Genres within SMS and MMS	89
	Introduction	89
	SMS and MMS diffusion	91
	What is a genre?	92
	Typifications of SMS	98
	The context of SMS	102
	The MMS experience	104
	MMS as a post card	105
	MMS as documentation	107
	MMS as quasi-technical documentation	108
	Other MMS genres	109
	Textual and pictorial interaction	110
	References	113
	Section Two: Texting and the Moral Order of Place	116
	5 From Voice to Text: continuity and change in the use of mobile phones in France and Japan	117
	Introduction	117
	Using Email and SMS in France and Japan	119
	Japan: switching from voice to mobile text	119
	SMS in France	124
	Motivations	127
	Embarrassment and ordinary phone calls	130
	Mobile messaging and the display of emotions	134
	Conclusion: the dynamics of direct and indirect exchanges in mediated communication	137
	References	140
	6 Intimate Connections: Contextualizing Japanese youth and mobile messaging	141
	Introduction	141
	Method and conceptual framework	142
	Japanese youth and the politics of place	147
	Tele-cocooning in the full-time intimate community	151
	Cultural politics of youth mobile media	153
	Conclusions	156
	Acknowledgements	157
	References	157
	7 The Breakthrough of Text Messaging in Finland	161
	Introduction	161
	Continuous use	162
	Playful text messaging?	165
	Group messages	167
	Problems and luck in interpretation	168
	Sharing the same rhythm – synchronous living	170
	Conclusions	171
	Acknowledgements	172
	References	172
	8 SMS Use Among Deaf Teens and Young Adults in Norway	175
	Introduction	175
	The deaf and their technologies	176
	The deaf in Norway	176
	Technology for the deaf	177
	The study	178
	Methods	178
	Theoretical grounding	178
	Findings	180
	Conclusion	187
	Acknowledgements	187
	References	187
	9 Mobile Communications vis-à-vis Teen Emancipation, Peer Group Integration and Deviance	189
	Introduction	189
	Method	192
	Mobile communications access and use	193
	The social context of teens	195
	Results	196
	Voice mobile telephony	196
	SMS	198
	Discussion	199
	Integration into the group	199
	Boundary-testing	200
	Serious criminality	200
	Mobile communication and teen deviance	201
	Appendix: Regression results	204
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