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TY - JOUR
T1 - The gift of the gab?
T2 - A design oriented sociology of young people's use of mobiles
AU - Taylor, A.S.
AU - Harper, R.
PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - This paper reports ethnographically informed observations of the use of mobile phones and text messaging services amongst young people. It offers a sociological explanation for the popularity of text messaging and for the sharing of mobile phones between co-proximate persons. Specifically, it reveals that young people use mobile phone content and the phones themselves to participate in the practices of gift exchange. By viewing mobile phone use in this way, the paper suggests a number of possibilities for future phone-based applications and supporting hardware.
AB - This paper reports ethnographically informed observations of the use of mobile phones and text messaging services amongst young people. It offers a sociological explanation for the popularity of text messaging and for the sharing of mobile phones between co-proximate persons. Specifically, it reveals that young people use mobile phone content and the phones themselves to participate in the practices of gift exchange. By viewing mobile phone use in this way, the paper suggests a number of possibilities for future phone-based applications and supporting hardware.
KW - Design
KW - Ethnography
KW - Mobile phones
KW - Mobiles
KW - Phones
KW - Short messaging
KW - SMS
KW - Teenagers
KW - Texters
KW - Texting
KW - Young people
KW - Computer hardware
KW - Computer networks
KW - Costs
KW - Information dissemination
KW - Information technology
KW - Mobile telecommunication systems
KW - Real time systems
KW - Computer supported cooperative work
U2 - 10.1023/A:1025091532662
DO - 10.1023/A:1025091532662
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 267
EP - 296
JO - Computer Supported Cooperative Work
JF - Computer Supported Cooperative Work
SN - 0925-9724
IS - 3
ER -