College students in multimedia relationships: Choosing, using, and fusing communication technologies

This paper examines a population of residential American college students and how they integrate communication technologies—namely, landline and mobile telephones, email, and instant messaging—with conventional face-to-face communication to form “multimedia relationships.” Primary research investigates the use of different modes of communication in an environment typified by choice, where all members of the population have relatively equal access to technology and the Internet in particular.

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