“It’s just not that exciting anymore”: The changing centrality of SMS in the everyday lives of young Danes
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“It’s just not that exciting anymore” : The changing centrality of SMS in the everyday lives of young Danes. / Bertel, Troels Fibæk; Ling, Richard.
In: New Media & Society, Vol. 18, No. 7, 2016, p. 1293-1309.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - “It’s just not that exciting anymore”
T2 - The changing centrality of SMS in the everyday lives of young Danes
AU - Bertel, Troels Fibæk
AU - Ling, Richard
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article considers the centrality of short message system (SMS) texting in the communication repertoires of young Danes. Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the mediascape with a multitude of new possibilities for text-based communication; Facebook, in particular, has become popular among young Danes. Some have suggested that the role of SMS texting, a technology that was previously an entrenched part of young people’s communication repertoires, has changed in this diversified media environment. Based on interviews with 31 Danish high school students and drawing on the domestication approach, this article examines the use practices and meanings associated with SMS texting in today’s complex and evolving mediascape. This article argues that SMS texting is becoming re-domesticated, its meanings changing, and the technology finding a new position in the communication repertoires of users.
AB - This article considers the centrality of short message system (SMS) texting in the communication repertoires of young Danes. Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the mediascape with a multitude of new possibilities for text-based communication; Facebook, in particular, has become popular among young Danes. Some have suggested that the role of SMS texting, a technology that was previously an entrenched part of young people’s communication repertoires, has changed in this diversified media environment. Based on interviews with 31 Danish high school students and drawing on the domestication approach, this article examines the use practices and meanings associated with SMS texting in today’s complex and evolving mediascape. This article argues that SMS texting is becoming re-domesticated, its meanings changing, and the technology finding a new position in the communication repertoires of users.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Domestication
KW - Facebook
KW - mobile communication
KW - short message system
KW - smartphones
KW - social network sites
KW - texting
KW - youth
U2 - 10.1177/1461444814555267
DO - 10.1177/1461444814555267
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 1293
EP - 1309
JO - New Media & Society
JF - New Media & Society
SN - 1461-4448
IS - 7
ER -
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