Seen and not heard? Text messaging and digital sociality

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-108

  Thompson, Lee ^a   Cupples, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Communication; Mobile telephony; Social spatialities; Teenagers; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; YOUNG POPULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 38849130580     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360701789634     Document Type: Article

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