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Seeing the way they are in the way they IM: Case studies of instant messaging in Taiwanese fifth graders' lives.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Seeing the way they are in the way they IM: Case studies of instant messaging in Taiwanese fifth graders' lives./
Author:	Huang, Wanju.
Description:	215 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-06, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-06A.
Subject:	Speech Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3452082
ISBN:	9781124582610

Seeing the way they are in the way they IM: Case studies of instant messaging in Taiwanese fifth graders' lives.
Huang, Wanju.

Seeing the way they are in the way they IM: Case studies of instant messaging in Taiwanese fifth graders' lives. - 215 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-06, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.

Empirical studies suggest instant messaging (IMing) is a dominant Internet activity among teenagers and has been portrayed as an essential element in teenagers' social lives. How IMing exists in younger aged children, however, receives little investigation. What a person's IMing usage can tell us beyond its critical role in one's personal relations deserves further exploration. With this in mind, I interviewed five 11-year-old elementary school students in Taiwan on their use of IMing with peers over Yahoo! Messenger and on their interactions with their "online friends" in online gaming chat rooms. To achieve my research goal I adopted two approaches in this study. First, to understand the role of Yahoo! Messenger in a child's life I asked questions such as: "How it is related to the child's personal relationships?"; " How did it become a part of the child's Internet activities?"; "Where is it situated in the child's daily life?" Second, I also sought to obtain a larger picture of the child through examining the ways the child used Yahoo! Messenger. In other words, I looked at the ways the child's IMing reflected his or her character and ideas about friendship.

ISBN: 9781124582610Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017408
Speech Communication.

Seeing the way they are in the way they IM: Case studies of instant messaging in Taiwanese fifth graders' lives.
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