A102.
Rice, R.E. & Hagen, I.
(2010). Young adults’ perpetual contact, social connection, and social
control
through the internet and mobile phones. In C.T. Salmon (Ed.), Communication yearbook, 34 (pp. 2-39).
London:
Routledge.
New communication
media, in both wired and
wireless forms,
are becoming embedded in young people’s everyday lives at home, in
their
bedroom, at school, in malls and in transit. Grounded in the concept of
perpetual contact, this chapter synthesizes
research on two general social implications -- social
connectivity and social
control -- of teenagers’ and
college students’ use of two sets of
new media
– Internet (email, Instant Messaging
(IM) and chat) and mobile phones (voice,
Short Message Service (SMS, or texting) and wireless email).
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