Title: COM 300 Basic concepts of new media Crispin Thurlow
1COM 300Basic conceptsof new mediaCrispin
Thurlow
2Media framing
Catherine
3Media framing
Geek
4Commercial branding
If you don't have a mobile, you're effectively a
non-person.
Orange
5Popular complaining
Young and free but tied to the mobile.
6SMS, text-messaging, textingWhat people really
want
T-Mobile
ATT
7Text-messagingLength, dialogicality contact
8Text-messagingNew linguistic forms?
shortenings, contractions, clippings min, wkend,
missin u acronyms and initialisms LOL,
TTFN letter-number homophones bcnu, b4now, r u
there, gr8 misspellings foned, skool,
thanx accent stylizations wivout, wassup, wanna,
tav
9Text-messagingFirst impressions
Hyper-coordination
10Text-messagingFirst impressions
Co-presenceand subversion
11ConclusionPutting things into perspective
hey babe.T.Drunk.Hate all luv.Have all men.Fuck
them.how r u?Were ou utery drunk.im
changing.Now.Rachel.xxx.Hate every1
Technological affordances andthe communication
imperative
The language of texting Distinctive but not
unique, linguistically ordinary