Introduction
This chapter addresses the new roles that cell phones play
in the communication patterns of teens. The chapter is broken into four parts
that analyze: 1) the role of texting in teens’ lives; 2) the role of cell voice
calling in teens’ lives; 3) the way texting and cell voice calling fit into the
larger scheme of teen communication patterns; and 4) the other activities that
teens perform on their ever-more-sophisticated handheld devices.