{"51686":{"#nid":"51686","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Understanding Instant Messaging Use Among Teens","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(September 4, 2006)\u2014\u003C\/strong\u003ECollege of Computing Associate Professor Beki Grinter, along with Leysia Palen from the University of Colorado at Boulder, conducted an interesting study about why teenagers use Instant Messaging (IM). The study is among the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library\u2019s \u201ctop 10\u201d downloads and highlights how IM fills gaps in communication needs, and more generally allows teenagers to work within the constraints of being unable to drive, having a curfew, and working around siblings\u2019 and parents\u2019 schedules.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnderstanding IM use among teenagers, a population that has not previously engaged in collaborative information technologies in such a widespread fashion, requires examining it as a feature of\u00a0teen culture. In their study of 16 teenage IM users, Grinter and Palen explored IM as an emerging feature of teen life, focusing their questions on its support of interpersonal communication and its role and salience in everyday life. This study was #8 on the ACM \u201ctop 10\u201d downloads list in June, and is #19 for the year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view ACM\u2019s \u0022top 10\u0022 listing, \u003Ca href=\u0022images\/pdfs\/acm_top10%20beki%20grinter_0906.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo read\u00a0Grinter\u0027s Instant Messaging study, \u003Ca href=\u0022images\/pdfs\/im%20study_grinter_090406.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Beki Grinter\u2019s study about the reasons teenagers adopt instant messaging is on the \u201cTop 10\u201d downloads of ACM\u2019s premier Digital Library.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:08","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}