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Always Connected: How Young Brazilians Use Short Message Services (Sms)

In: Challenges In The Management Of New Technologies

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  • Marie Agnes Chauvel

    (Ibmec-RJ, Brazil)

Abstract

This paper aims to study the role played by short messages services (SMS) in the reinforcement of social and emotional links in teenagers and young adults communities. The paper is based on a qualitative research carried out during the year of 2004 in Rio de Janeiro with twenty teenagers and young adults, between 16 and 25 years old, users of SMS, who were submitted to in-depth interviews. Results suggest that short messages play a major role in the teenagers and young adults identity building process. Faced with an uncertain future and a high level of urban violence, these consumers use short messages to keep permanent contact with other young people, usually a small number of correspondents with whom they exchange a large number of messages daily, most of them composed with very few words (like: "are you there?"). This permanent contact with others seems to be used as a tool to increase self-confidence and emotional comfort.

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  • Marie Agnes Chauvel, 2007. "Always Connected: How Young Brazilians Use Short Message Services (Sms)," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Marianne Hörlesberger & Mohamed El-Nawawi & Tarek Khalil (ed.), Challenges In The Management Of New Technologies, chapter 39, pages 589-599, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789812770318_0039
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