CCT109H5 Study Guide - Mobile Phone, Text Messaging, Ipad

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Rhonda Mc Ewen

Document Summary

Core themes: communication practices differ around the world, media affordances can encourage new practices, contemporary communications can challenge the social order. School cellphone ban spawns niche storage market: nyb (new york board) of edu. Banned use of electronics in public schools since 1980: vernon alcoser solved solution by providing mobile storage during school hours. What is text messaging and how did it happen: text messages or short message service (sms) is a mechanism of delivery of short messages over the mobile networks. In the case that the recipient is not available, the. Where did it begin: paging japanese, teenagers, numeric phonetics, asia early 1990"s, europe mid 1990"s, north america 2004-2005. Smartphone: category of mobile phones that enable users to read email, take phones, and browse the internet. Dominant and persistent social narrative that test messaging is negatively affecting literacy of young people.