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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Texting"”.
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Texting, self, and society
… think of, and what children actually say, about texting on cell phones as a method of communicating.</p>
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Preventing texting while driving : a design investigation
… 11 deaths per day. Current methods of preventing texting while driving are either too new to be fully realized or are ineffective due to poor design or implementation methods. A methodical investigation into the design and merits of these methods, the environments that drivers interact with, and …
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Client-Clinician Texting: An Expansion of the Clinical Holding Environment
While there has been a surge in the texting literature related to the innovative uses of mobile technology in clinical social work practice, there is a dearth of knowledge related to the use of texting between clients and clinicians. Regardless of a clinician’s individual preference for using …
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Assessing Photo-texting methods in a home-based parent nutrition intervention
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Adult Texting in Context : Exploring Norms for Mature Users of Text-Messaging Technologies.
… regarding the use of text-messaging, what roll texting plays in adult's communication patterns, the sociological impact of text-messaging on survey respondents, and to examine the prevalence of this technology in adults' lives.</p>
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The relationship between texting and language development amongst intermediate phase learners in uThungulu District
… was to investigate the relationship between texting language and language development amongst Intermediate Phase learners. The study, which used the quantitative approach, sought to determine the influence of learner characteristics on texting language, determine if learners use texting …
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Teaching Texting on a Smart Phone to Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
… mediated communication (CMC; Pew, 2015, 2018). Texting in particular is one popular form of CMC that may mitigate the non-verbal social skill deficits seen in individuals with ASD, such as eye contact and tone of voice. Despite the potential of texting and its' popularity as a CMC medium among …
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Texting Versus Talking: Age Sex and Extroversion as Predictors of Frequency and Preference Among an Undergraduate Cohort.
… of texts a person sends and (2) preferences for texting or calling. The study also explores the use of cell phones as a means of avoiding others during co-present interaction. Findings reveal that age is the strongest predictor of text messaging, with younger respondents being more likely to …
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The effects of cell phone and text message conversations on simulated street crossing
… simulator was used to examine the effects of texting on pedestrian street crossing performance. Research suggests that street crossing performance is impaired when pedestrians engage in cell phone conversations. Less is known about the impact of texting on street crossing performance. …
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SOCIAL NETWORK INFLUENCE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING BEHAVIORS: THE ROLE OF PROXIMAL AND DISTAL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ON TEXTING WHILE DRIVING
Texting while driving (TWD) continues to be a prevalent issue among emerging adults, with approximately 51.4% of people ages 16-19 and 45.1% of people ages 20-24 stating they had sent text messages while driving during the last 30 days. Social Norms Theory suggests that individuals are influenced …
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Mountains, Molehills and Mediation: Exploring the Affordances, the Drawbacks and the Facilitation of Presence Via Face-to-Face Communication and Texting
… social and corporeal presence is facilitated via texting and face-to-face communication. Face-to-face communication is considered to be the preferred means of communication among many scholars due to its sensorial, co-present, human-based means of exchanging physical and social presence.Texting is …
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Love at First Like: A Case Study of New Media Activities Toward the Opposite Sex at an All Girl High School
This study analyzes the usage of texting and other social media messenger tools of college freshmen who attended all girl high schools by exploring their lived experiences and social interactions with the opposite sex. The purpose of this case study is to determine the experiences of students at an …
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A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging
… to explore linguistic features which define texting as a language variety. It focuses on how the language of texting, Txt, is shaped by texters actively fulfilling interpersonal goals. The thesis starts with an overview of the literature on texting, which indicates the need for thorough …
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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Development of Mandarin Chinese in Fourth Grade Chinese Immersion
… of characters during the same time period. Texting with classmates using Pinyin input, when replacing multi-component word work, was negatively associated with freewriting output, that is, students who completed word work did better in freewriting post-texting intervention. Within texting …
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Using naturalistic driving data to improve the understanding of drivers' self-regulatory behavior when engaged in cell phone tasks
… das Lesen und Verfassen von Textnachrichten („Texting“), hat in den letzten Jahren drastisch zugenommen und stellt ein wachsendes Risiko für die Verkehrssicherheit dar. Es ist bekannt, dass visuell-manuelle Zweitaufgaben wie Texting die Fahrleistung negativ beeinträchtigen und das Unfallrisiko …
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Exploring the Effects of Text Messaging on the Spelling Skills of Ninth and 12th Grade Students
… – were given a questionnaire concerning their texting practices and a grade-appropriate spelling test. They also were asked if it is appropriate to use textisms in formal writings and to write a formal email to their principal. The use of texting showed no significance on spelling, either for …
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Essays in applied econometrics
… In the first chapter, I study the effects of texting and handheld cell phone bans on the traffic crash fatalities in the United States. In the second chapter, I analyze the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Value-at-Risk of the companies with publicly traded stocks. The last chapter is …
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The cultural life of suicide : observing care and death at MIT
… on field observations with the student-run texting help line Lean On Me, as well as interviews of students and administrators working in campus mental health organizations, I then explore how mental health organizations approach their work within an environment where suicide is ambient and …
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