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Why everyone loves to text message: social management with SMS

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GROUP '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099260

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This poster presents a study of SMS use among young adults and how they manage their social lives by SMS. It focuses on three features: overcoming shyness, facilitating 'appropriate behavior' and how users exploit the conciseness of messages. In conclusion we discuss the surprising value of this modest medium in people's everyday lives.

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Why everyone loves to text message: social management with SMS
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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GROUP '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

November 2005

368 pages

ISBN:1595932232

DOI:10.1145/1099203

General Chairs:
Mark Pendergast
Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
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Kjeld Schmidt
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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University of California, Irvine, USA
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Mark Ackerman
University of Michigan, USA

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