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Download or read book Moving Cultures written by André H. Caron and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: André Caron and Letizia Caronia look at teenagers' use of text messaging to chat, flirt, and gossip. They find that messaging among teens has little to do with sending shorthand information quickly. Instead, it is a verbal performance through which young people create culture. Moving Cultures argues that teenagers have domesticated and reinterpreted this technology.