Talking text and talking back: "my BFF jill" from boob tube to youtube

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1050-1079

  Jones, Graham M ^a,c   Schieffelin, Bambi B ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Joseph Henry House   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

LANGUAGE HIERARCHIES; MAINSTREAM MEDIA; TEXT-MESSAGING; TEXTING; YOUNG PEOPLES; YOUTUBE;

TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 68849085576     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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