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Mobile Communication as a Social Stage

Meanings of Mobile Communication in Everyday Life among Teenagers in Finland

University of Tampere, Finland virpi.oksman{at}uta.fi

Jussi Turtiainen

University of Tampere, Finland jussi.turtiainen{at}uta.fi

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.

Key Words: everyday life • family context • mobile communication • multimedial communication • peer-group relations • selfpresentation • youth

New Media & Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, 319-339 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1461444804042518


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