Bonding Gossip as an Identity Negotiation Life Phase: A Study of Multimodal Texting via Smartphone Among Taiwanese College Freshmen
Drawn on ethnographic interviews with 17 informants as well as seven focus group interviews, this study examines how college freshmen text on social media via smartphones to formulate collegiate bonding. Gossip is common between two individuals to avoid collapsed context, so both parties can ascerta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116677138 |