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Symbolic Capital in a Virtual Heterosexual Market: Abbreviation and Insertion in Italian iTV SMS
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Herring, Susan C.; Zelenkauskaite, Asta – Written Communication, 2009
This study analyzes gender variation in nonstandard typography--specifically, abbreviations and insertions--in mobile phone text messages (SMS) posted to a public Italian interactive television (iTV) program. All broadcast SMS were collected for a period of 2 days from the Web archive for the iTV program, and the frequency and distribution of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Sociolinguistics, Programming (Broadcast), Internet