Over the past decade, technology has become increasingly important in the lives of
adolescents. As a group, adolescents are heavy users of newer electronic communication …

Social matching systems bring people together in both physical and online spaces. They
have the potential to increase social interaction and foster collaboration. However, social …

With the advent of instant mobile messaging applications, traditional SMS is in danger of
loosing it's reign as the king of mobile messaging. Applications like WhatsApp allow mobile …

In this paper, we present a study of WhatsApp, an instant messaging smartphone
application. Through our interviews with participants, we develop anthopologist Tim Ingold's …

Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is
used for “real time coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their …

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and
society around the world—in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the …

Most adults and adolescents in developed countries now own mobile phones and media
devices, and for many people in developing countries a mobile phone can offer the only …

As social network sites like MySpace and Facebook emerged, American teenagers began
adopting them as spaces to mark identity and socialize with peers. Teens leveraged these …

This article will demonstrate how the notion of'phatic communion'has become an
increasingly significant part of digital media culture alongside the rise of online networking …

An extended adoption model based on the technology acceptance model and theory of
reasoned action is applied for pin‐pointing the antecedents of intention to use mobile chat …