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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Texting and the Moral Order of Place
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Back Matter
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About this book
SMS or Text is one of the most popular forms of messaging. Yet, despite its immense popularity, SMS has remained unexamined by science. Not only that, but the commercial organisations, who have been forced to offer SMS by a demanding public, have had very little idea why it has been successful. Indeed, they have, until very recently, planned to replace SMS with other messaging services such as MMS.
This book is the first to bring together scientific studies into the values that ‘texting’ provides, examining both cultural variation in countries as different as the Philippines and Germany, as well as the differences between SMS and other communications channels like Instant Messaging and the traditional letter. It presents usability and design research which explores how SMS will evolve and what is likely to be the pattern of person-to-person messaging in the future. In short, The Inside Text is a fundamental resource for anyone interested in mobile communications at the start of the 21st Century.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Inside Text
Book Subtitle: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS
Editors: R. Harper, L. Palen, A. Taylor
Series Title: Computer Supported Cooperative Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3060-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3059-8Published: 21 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6780-7Published: 21 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3060-4Published: 27 June 2005
Series ISSN: 1431-1496
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 331
Topics: Computer Science, general, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Anthropology, Sociology, general