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Tekstowy charakter komunikacji wirtualnej a problemy edukacyjne młodzieży gimnazjalnej
Text-based virtual communication and educational problems of youth from junior high school

Author(s): Anna Brosch
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: virtual communication; the way of communication; text-messaging; language code

Summary/Abstract: The electronic media has intensively entered into youth’s daily lives becoming the main transmitter of knowledge and information, leading to new ways of communication that caused of creation of specific cyber language, which is a combination of acronyms, abbreviations and text characters that imitate emotion. Language existing in virtual communication is shorter and easier in spelling, but on the other hand, the forms of writing used by young people in communication via electronic media are often like a code than standard language, that is not necessarily clear to an outsider.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 39 (2)
  • Page Range: 289-300
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish