Age-old practices in the 'New World': A study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 439-446

  Taylor, Alex S ^a   Harper, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell phones; Ethnography; Gift giving; Mobile phones; SMS; Teenagers; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

MOBILE PHONES;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037480779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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