CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Short Message Service, Rebus, Text Messaging

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Short message service (sms) is a mechanism of delivery of short messages over the mobile networks. The message (text) from the sending mobile is stored in a central short message center (sms) which then forwards it to the destination mobile. (if recipient is not available message will still be sent later on because it"s stored) Paging japanese teenage girls numeric phonetics (rebus principle) North america 2004-5 (people sometimes got charged for receiving the calls, therefore it took longer for texts and phones to develop) Smartphone: category of mobile phones that enable users to read email, take photos, and browse the internet. Mobile not only phone - anything that is portable (ex. ipad, tablet ) Cell phone hexagonal cells topography in north america (diagram in book) Persistent social narrative that text messaging is affecting literacy in young people: Textese: a written vocabulary that has emerged from texting practice. Deletion of unnecessary words, vowels, punctuation, capitalization, etc.