An Exploration of Communicating with Textspeak - A Social Presence Perspective

DOI

10.2991/itmr.2013.3.1.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Text-speak, Social presence, Social interaction, Communication

Abstract

With proliferous usage in CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication), textspeak (such as c u means see you) has become common words appears in email, SMS, IM, Blog and Twitter. Little research has explored how text-speak affects people’s intimacy when interacting through CMC tools. Thus, this study investigates whether social presence carried by textspeak affects people’s interaction. The results indicate that social presence is positively related to social interaction, which implies that people feel more intimate and the existence of others by using text-speak. The discussions and future directions are discussed.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ying Chieh Liu
AU  - Chad Lin
AU  - Yu-An Huang
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013/04/01
TI  - An Exploration of Communicating with Textspeak - A Social Presence Perspective
JO  - The International Technology Management Review
SP  - 54
EP  - 59
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SN  - 1835-5269
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itmr.2013.3.1.5
DO  - 10.2991/itmr.2013.3.1.5
ID  - Liu2013
ER  -