Text-messaging Cultures of College Girls in Hong Kong: SMS as Resources for Achieving Intimacy and Gift-exchange with Multiple Functions

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Angel M.Y. Lin

Angel M. Y. Lin received her PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1996. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She works in the areas of critical discourse analysis, urban ethnography, critical education studies, feminist media studies and youth cultural studies. With a background in ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and social theory, her theoretical orientations are phenomenological, sociocultural and critical. Correspondence to: Angel M. Y. Lin, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. [email protected]

Avin H.M. Tong

Avin H. M. Tong is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. She received her master's degree in Communication from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been researching on topics in youth cultures, media audience studies and feminist cultural studies.