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This article offers an interesting description if the evolution of text messaging and how it has become increasingly beneficial. The article also describes how the structure of text messaging has changed with the development of more advanced cell phones.

A website compiling the "Largest List of Text Message Shorthand." I found this interesting because i think this is one example of how writing is turning into a vastly abbreviated medium.

This site is set up exactly like Google.com, but instead of searching the entire web it only searches Twitter messages. The purpose of this site (if there is one) is to type in whatever word or phrase you want and it will search through thousands of Twitter messages and bring up the ones where your words appear in. For example if I type the word "school" into the Twitter Search, it will bring back anyone's status that currently has the word school in it. This site also represents multimedia authorship because it taking people's tweets and allowing others to read them freely without knowing whose status it is. I never asked for anyone to search a word and to use my tweet just because it comes up on this search engine. I would like read about the terms of use in the Twitter website and if it does state that your tweets are open to anyone, because I think it is truly crazy how there are websites designed to spy and allow others to read what you are typing.

A website that offers a variety of real text messages...can be very entertaining

This website is made up of a text messages that people post. Anyone can post or read them, and the texts include something funny, disgusting, or entertaining that happened the night before.

This website archives text message poetry. what is most interesting about this site is that it is interactive. you control your own journey through the poetry via the interactive cell phone.

This article explains how a chain of pawn shops in Texas sued an anonymous John Doe who posted comments on an Internet message board criticizing the chain of shops. The chain thought that the John Doe may have been a former employee. Despite Doe's efforts to protect his identity, the court rejected Doe's motions. This article shows that although Internet users are often thought to have a right to anonymity, the privacy of Internet users is not enforced by law. Actions that are considered criminal offline are also considered unlawful on the Internet. Still, the rulings of cases involving online anonymity are ultimately decisions of the courts they are heard in.

This article addresses the differences between the types of writing students do in the classroom and the writing they complete outside the classroom, including text messages, e-mails, and facebook posts. The article further explains how teachers should take advantage of students' interests in online writing to help encourage enthusiasm for classroom writing as well.

Cell phone novels are a big deal in Japan. The novel are written via cell phone using short text messages. Unfortunately for us, they're in Japanese. According to Wired: "A mobile phone novel typically contains between 200 and 500 pages, with each page containing about 500 Japanese characters. The novels are read on a cell phone screen page by page, the way one would surf the web, and are downloadable for around $10 each."

Summary: American youth are awash in media. They have television sets in their bedrooms, personal computers in their family rooms, and digital music players and cell phones in their backpacks. They spend more time with media than any single activity other than sleeping, with the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old reporting more than six hours of daily media use. The growing phenomenon of "media multitasking"-using several media concurrently-multiplies that figure to eight and a half hours of media exposure daily. Donald Roberts and Ulla Foehr examine how both media use and media exposure vary with demographic factors such as age, race and ethnicity, and household socioeconomic status, and with psychosocial variables such as academic performance and personal adjustment. They note that media exposure begins early, increases until children begin school, drops off briefly, then climbs again to peak at almost eight hours daily among eleven- and twelve-year-olds. Television and video exposure is particularly high among African American youth. Media exposure is negatively related to indicators of socioeconomic status, but that relationship may be diminishing. Media exposure is positively related to risk-taking behaviors and is negatively related to personal adjustment and school performance. Roberts and Foehr also review evidence pointing to the existence of a digital divide-variations in access to personal computers and allied technologies by socioeconomic status and by race and ethnicity. The authors also examine how the recent emergence of digital media such as personal computers, video game consoles, and portable music players, as well as the media multitasking phenomenon they facilitate, has increased young people's exposure to media messages while leaving media use time largely unchanged. Newer media, they point out, are not displacing older media but are being used in concert with them. The authors note which young people are more or less li

Twitter has become one of the next biggest things to hit the multimedia world. It's a free social-networking site where people read and send messages, much like sending out a mass text message. People can access Twitter via the website or on their phones. This is a site that features all of WVU's Twitters that people can "follow". Examples include WVUNewsFeed, WVU SportsBuzz, Coach Bill Stewart, and so on.

This website offers WVU students access to Twitter feeds relating to University news, sports, colleges, and various departments. This site also provides links to specific WVU Twitterers.

An online computer dictionary and Internet search engine for Internet terms and technical support.

This is a website where you can download the bible translated into text message language.

youtube video about text message and teens and how SMS texting is the new language of teens

In another bookmark I posted an article about Iowa being one of the first hospitals to use Twitter in the operating room. The patient underwent a hysterectomy and the surgeon sent over 300 tweets to the patients' family members about the process of the surgery. Here are some of the actual tweets that were sent...

Abstract: The article identifies ten myths about Internet Art, and explains the difficulties museums and othes have understanding what it means to make art for the internet. In identifying these common misconceptions, the suthor offers insight in successful online works, provides inspiration to internet artists, and explains that geographical location does not measure success when making art for the internet.

youtube video featuring grant barrett who is an advocate for texting enhancing teen literacy

article about how the english anguage is getting shorter becuase if text lingo!