Mobile Communication as a Social Stage: Meanings of Mobile Communication in Everyday Life among Teenagers in Finland

The spread of mobile communication among Finnish teenagers has been markedly rapid during the latter half of the 1990s. Young people have created and developed a communication culture that incorporates many special features, such as a rise in the use of text-based communication channels. Teenagers’...

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Published in:New media & society 2004-06, Vol.6 (3), p.319-339
Main Authors: Oksman, Virpi, Turtiainen, Jussi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Adoption of Innovations
Communications technology
Everyday life
Family environment
Finland
Information Technology
Interpersonal Communication
Media studies
Mobile phones
Peer groups
Self-perception
Social Interaction
Symbolic Interactionism
Telephone Communications
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Summary:The spread of mobile communication among Finnish teenagers has been markedly rapid during the latter half of the 1990s. Young people have created and developed a communication culture that incorporates many special features, such as a rise in the use of text-based communication channels. Teenagers’ intersecting and selective use of communication channels has generated multimedial communication. From the theoretical standpoint provided by symbolic interactionism, we can ask whether communication through new media technologies generates new forms of social interaction. If this is the case, how could we describe and analyse these new forms of interaction? The media landscapes created by teenagers serve to articulate their personal space, as well as enabling their presentation of self and defining their relationships to others. This article is based on thematic interview material, and its purpose is to analyse the meanings and use contexts of mobile communication and other multimedial communication culture among Finnish youth.
ISSN:1461-4448
1461-7315
DOI:10.1177/1461444804042518