New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion

By Richard Ling. 2008

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A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging (2009, background): “The integration of texting with other forms of communication, including electronic and face-to-face interaction, is another recurrent theme in the literature (Madell and Muncer 2004; Oksman and Turtianen 2004; Faulkner and Culwin 2005; Ling 2008).”
Parental Mediation Theory for the Digital Age (2011, unknown): “But such technologies can also lead to problems of ''co-presence'' in which parents feel that their young people are paying more attention to the people on the other end of the cell phone conversation than to those in the same room (Ling, 2008; Ito & Okabe, 2005).”
Communicative Affordances of Mobile Media: Portability, Availability, Locatability, and Multimediality (2015, background): “Despite this rise, with few exceptions (Koskinen, 2007; Okabe & Ito, 2006) interest from social scientists on visual communication practices has been on either its interpretation or its dark side (Ling, 2008b).”