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Jacobs, Gloria E. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2006
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of adolescent use of instant messaging. Grounded in the New Literacy Studies stance that literacy is a social practice embedded in local contexts and informed by global ideologies (Street, 1995), I argue that participation in digital literacies such as instant messaging has implications for…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Adolescents, Reader Text Relationship