Chatting with teenagers: Considering the place of chat technologies in teen life Export

@article{citeulike:1126851, abstract = {In the last few years, teenagers have been on the forefront of adopting short message service (SMS), a mobile phone-based text messaging system, and instant messaging (IM), a computer-based text chat system. However, while teenage adoption of SMS had led to a series of studies examining the reasons for its popularity, IM use in the teenage population remains understudied. This omission becomes significant given the increasing interest in domestic computing among human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) researchers. Further, because of the dearth of empirical work on teenage use of IM, we find that IM and SMS are sometimes incorrectly assumed to share the same features of use. To address these concerns, we revisit our own studies of SMS and IM use and reexamine them in tandem with other published studies on teenage chat. We consider similarities and differences in styles of SMS and IM use and how chat technologies enable the pursuit of teenage independence. We examine how differences are born out of technological differences and financial cost structures. We discuss how SMS and IM are used in concert to provide increased awareness and to coordinate inter-household communications, and how privacy is regulated within the individual household as a means of maintaining these communications.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Grinter, Rebecca E. and Palen, Leysia and Eldridge, Margery}, citeulike-article-id = {1126851}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1188817}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1188816.1188817}, doi = {10.1145/1188816.1188817}, issn = {1073-0516}, journal = {ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.}, keywords = {banking, hci}, month = {December}, number = {4}, pages = {423--447}, posted-at = {2007-11-27 08:44:06}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Chatting with teenagers: Considering the place of chat technologies in teen life}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1188816.1188817}, volume = {13}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1126851 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1126851 N2 - In the last few years, teenagers have been on the forefront of adopting short message service (SMS), a mobile phone-based text messaging system, and instant messaging (IM), a computer-based text chat system. However, while teenage adoption of SMS had led to a series of studies examining the reasons for its popularity, IM use in the teenage population remains understudied. This omission becomes significant given the increasing interest in domestic computing among human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) researchers. Further, because of the dearth of empirical work on teenage use of IM, we find that IM and SMS are sometimes incorrectly assumed to share the same features of use. To address these concerns, we revisit our own studies of SMS and IM use and reexamine them in tandem with other published studies on teenage chat. We consider similarities and differences in styles of SMS and IM use and how chat technologies enable the pursuit of teenage independence. We examine how differences are born out of technological differences and financial cost structures. We discuss how SMS and IM are used in concert to provide increased awareness and to coordinate inter-household communications, and how privacy is regulated within the individual household as a means of maintaining these communications. IS - 4 JF - ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. SN - 1073-0516 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 447 TI - Chatting with teenagers: Considering the place of chat technologies in teen life PB - ACM VL - 13 SP - 423 KW - banking KW - hci AU - Grinter, Rebecca AU - Palen, Leysia AU - Eldridge, Margery PY - 2006/12// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1188816.1188817 ER -