- Title
- The experience of instant messaging upon adolescent female relationship
- Creator
- Eberhardt, Antoinette
- Subject
- Adolescent psychology -- South Africa
- Subject
- Instant messaging -- South Africa
- Subject
- Friendship in adolescence -- South Africa
- Subject
- Teenage girls -- Social networks
- Subject
- Social networks -- Psychological aspects
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:9877
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1324
- Identifier
- Adolescent psychology -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Instant messaging -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Friendship in adolescence -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Teenage girls -- Social networks
- Identifier
- Social networks -- Psychological aspects
- Description
- Social Interaction Technologies (SIT) have broadened the horizon of communication in terms of the way people are able to communicate. It is now possible to interact with others across the world and engage in numerous activities ranging from dating to political movements, hobbies and even professions (Chigona, Chigona, Ngqokelela, & Mpofu, 2009). Adolescents and pre-adolescents especially are inclined to make use of SIT in their social lives with the most popular mode of communication, apart from email, being instant messaging (IM) (Brown, Mounts, Lamborn, & Steinberg, 1993; Bryant, Sanders-Jackson, & Smallwood, 2006; Madden & Rainie, 2003). Adolescents tend to use IM regularly as a tool to maintain relationships and girls especially, use it as a tool to socialise (Jennings & Wartella, 2004; Lenhart, Rainie, & Lewis, 2001). The mobile phone or cell phone, which is another example of an SIT-based communication, has become an established medium of technical, social and commercial communication in South Africa. It has given rise to the development and vast growth of a mobile youth culture who consider it an essential tool for communicating (Bosch, 2008). In South Africa, instant messages may be sent via mobile phone using one of two methods: MXit and the SMS (short messaging service). MXit and the SMS are considered convenient tools of communication as an ongoing conversation in the form of a text message may be maintained in the present (Yoshii, Matsuda, Habuchi, Dobashi, Iwata, & Kin, 2002).
- Format
- vi, 139 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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