Cell Phones, Text Messaging, and Facebook: Competing Time Demands of Today's College Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudy L. Hanson ◽  
Kristina Drumheller ◽  
Jessica Mallard ◽  
Connie McKee ◽  
Paula Schlegel
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Time Demands

College Students Tethered to Parents via Cell Phones: Does It Influence Adjustment to College?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha L. Gray ◽  
Christi L. Culpepper ◽  
Nicholas Bishop ◽  
Rachel M. Holmes ◽  
Deborah P. Welsh
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Adjustment To College

Adolescent Text Messaging

2015 ◽  
pp. 1399-1408
Author(s):  
J. Mitchell Vaterlaus ◽  
Randall M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Frequent Users ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Regular Medium

Cell phones provide multiple mediums for communication (e.g., voice, text, video) and have become the defining technology of the 21st century. Text messaging (SMS; texting) has become a popular and regular medium for communication among adolescents. When compared to other age groups, adolescents are the most frequent users of text messaging. Adolescents are motivated to use this technology because it allows them to maintain constant communication with their social network in a convenient and private manner. Given the popularity of this technology among adolescents, research has begun to focus on the frequency of use and concerns (e.g., cyberbullying) associated with text messaging. The motivations for the use of text messaging, the influence of text messaging on relationships, and the culture surrounding adolescent text messaging have also motivated researchers and developmental scholars.

Online Abuse

2012 ◽  
pp. 911-917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Bossler ◽  
Thomas J. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
Online Abuse ◽  
Beneficial Impact

The development of computers, cell phones, and the Internet allows individuals to connect with one another with ease in a variety of ways in near real time. The beneficial impact of these resources, however, has been adulterated by some to engage in abusive communications while online. Specifically, individuals now use email, text messaging, and social networking sites to spread hurtful or malicious information about others. This entry summarizes the problem of online abuse via cyberbullying, online harassment, and stalking by discussing the prevalence of these phenomena as well as the prospective predictors of victimization.

College Students’ Perceptions of Cell Phone Integration in Language Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Guoqiang Cui ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Shuyan Wang ◽  
Zhenhuan Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Foreign Language Study ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Language Study

Cell phone integration in education has been widely discussed and explored, especially in the field of foreign language study. Compared with other countries, cell phone educational integration in China is in its infancy. This article examined Chinese college students’ perceptions of cell phone usage in three aspects: interaction, course construction, and flexibility. Though students generally demonstrated great interest for the cell phone integration in English language study, no significant difference was found between students’ characteristics and perceptions of interaction, course construction, and flexibility in their use of cell phones. However, researchers did find that course constructions are a significant predictor of students’ senses of course flexibility issues. This study also found that many students hold neutral attitudes towards the integration of cell phones, therefore initial stage of cell phone usage is of great importance in order to attract and motivate more students.

Exploring Potential Factors in Sticker Use Among Japanese Young Adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Shogo Kato ◽  
Yuuki Kato ◽  
Yasuyuki Ozawa
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Nonverbal Cues ◽  
Potential Factors

In text-based communication, people can now use not only emoticons and emoji, but also graphical symbols called stickers. This study focused on the use of stickers in text-based communication. A questionnaire asking subjects to individually rate the perceived usefulness of 25 features of stickers was prepared and used in a survey targeting 211 Japanese college students. The authors then explored potential factors in the roles of stickers. The study revealed three potential roles of stickers: “easy transmission of subtle nuances and nonverbal cues,” “abundant and versatile expressions that can be substituted for text messages,” and “changing the topic, flow, or rationale of the interaction.” The authors examined the effects of gender and text messaging dependency on these roles. Results showed significant effects of dependency in all roles, but effects of gender were seen in only “abundant and versatile expressions that can be substituted for text messages.”

scholarly journals Text message content as a window into college student drinking: Development and initial validation of a dictionary of “alcohol-talk”

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaeline Jensen ◽  
Andrea M. Hussong
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Message Content ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Student Drinking ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Prevention Studies ◽  
High Risk Drinking

The ubiquity of digital communication within the high-risk drinking environment of college students raises exciting new directions for prevention research. However, we are lacking relevant constructs and tools to analyze digital platforms that serve to facilitate, discuss, and rehash alcohol use. In the current study, we introduce the construct of alcohol-talk (or the extent to which college students use alcohol-related words in text messaging exchanges) as well as introduce and validate a novel tool for measuring this construct. We describe a closed-vocabulary, dictionary-based method for assessing alcohol-talk. Analyses of 569,172 text messages from 267 college students indicate that this method produces a reliable and valid measure that correlates as expected with self-reported alcohol and related risk constructs. We discuss the potential utility of this method for prevention studies.

2 TXT or not 2 TXT: College students’ reports of when text messaging is social breach

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa A. Harrison ◽  
Christine E. Bealing ◽  
Jessica M. Salley
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Text Messaging
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