Text messaging communication at college: A case study

Abstract

Because of its reasonable service price and ease of use, text-messaging is popular in Indonesia. Users do not have to own high-end features cellphones and lots of pocket money to be able to use text-message services. The use of text-messaging affects the way people communicate with one another. When text-message communication, which is casual-informal, intersects with formal communication between college professors and students, many different perspectives can affect the communication process. This paper aims to provide perspectives from college professors and students at the University of Tanjungpura about the appropriateness of using text-messages for college communication. The original paper was unpublished and written in Bahasa Indonesia. The challenge for rewriting this paper is to make sure that translation of text-message quotations from Indonesia into English can be ascertained by readers with the same meaning as in the original language.