Difference between revisions of "Texting"

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Studying Deaf Users Texting Behavior

[1] Akamatsu, C.T., Mayer, C. and Farrelly, S. (2006) An Investigation of Two-Way Text Messaging Use With Deaf Students at the Secondary Level. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 2006. 11(1):120-131.

Comment: Deaf high school students and their parents were given two-way pagers for 4 years and intermittant surveys and questionnaires to investigate use and extent of text messaging. Results indicate dramatic differencing in independence of youth and connection with parents.

[2] Ecker, K.D. (2008) Mobile phones as a social medium for the deaf: a uses and gratifications study. Doctoral Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, Issue Date: Aug 2008.

Comment: Deaf college students self-reported sending and receiving more text messages than hearing college students.

[3] Henderson-Summet, V., Grinter, R.E., Carroll, J. and Starner, T. (2007) Electronic communication: Themes from a case study of the Deaf community. Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '07), 347-360.

[4] Power, M.R. and Power, D. (2004) Everyone Here Speaks TXT: Deaf People Using SMS in Australia and the Rest of the World. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 2004. 9(3):333-343.

Comment: Documents the increased use of text messaging (SMS and IM) in Australia and the U. S.

[5] Hogg, N.M., Lomicky, C.S., and Weiner, S.F. (2008). Computer-Mediated Communication and the Gallaudent University Community: a Preliminary Report. American Annals of the Deaf, 153(1), 89-96.

[6] Pilling, D., and Barrett, P. (2008). Text Communication Preferences of Deaf People in the United Kingdom. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 13(1), 92-103.

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