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Humphrys, John. "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language." UK Daily Mail: 24 September 2007. 27 March 2010. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483511/I-h8-txt-msgs-How-texting-wrecking-language.html>.
Lee, Jennifer. "I Think, Therefore IM." New York Times: 19 September 2002. 27 March 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technology/i-think-therefore-im.html?pagewanted=1>.
Quan-Haase, Anabel. "Text-Based Conversations Over Instant Messaging: Linguistic Changes and Young People's Sociability." Language and New Media: Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Evolutions. Ed. Charley Rowe and Eva L. Wyss. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2009.
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"'Unfriend' Named New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year." PR Newswire. 16 November 2009. 27 March 2010. <http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unfriend-named-new-oxford-american-dictionarys-2009-word-of-the-year-70201607.html>.
Ward, Lucy. "Texting 'is no bar to literacy.'" The Guardian: 23 December 2004. 29 March 2010. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/dec/23/schools.mobilephones>.
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Head picture from http://www.motherproof.com/advice-safety/story/more-states-crack-down-on-texting-and-driving/. Note that each page's picture links to its source.
Crystal, David. "Old words may die, but they live on in cyberspace." The Times: 22 September 2008. 27 March 2010. <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4798835.ece>.
Dunnewind, Stephanie. “’Generation Text’: Teens’ IM lingo evolving into a hybrid language.” The Seattle Times: 12 April 2003. 10 April 2010. <http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20030412&slug=immain12>.
Genzlinger, Neil. “This Is English, Rules Are Optional.” The New York Times: 31 December 2009. 10 April 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/books/01book.html?scp=1&sq=&st=nyt>.
Hogan, Patrick. "AOL-speak is destroying language's beauty." The Chicago Maroon: 13 April 2006. 27 March 2010. <http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2006/4/13/aol-speak-is-destroying-language8217s-beauty>.
Humphrys, John. "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language." UK Daily Mail: 24 September 2007. 27 March 2010. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483511/I-h8-txt-msgs-How-texting-wrecking-language.html>.
Lee, Jennifer. "I Think, Therefore IM." New York Times: 19 September 2002. 27 March 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technology/i-think-therefore-im.html?pagewanted=1>.
Quan-Haase, Anabel. "Text-Based Conversations Over Instant Messaging: Linguistic Changes and Young People's Sociability." Language and New Media: Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Evolutions. Ed. Charley Rowe and Eva L. Wyss. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2009.
Schuessler, Jennifer. "Keeping It Real on Dictionary Row." New York Times: 13 June 2009. 27 March 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/weekinreview/14shuessler.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=new%20words%20added%20to%20dictionary&st=cse>.
Thurlow, C. 2006. "From statistical panic to moral panic: The metadiscursive construction of popular exaggeration of new media language in the print media." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3). 27 March 2010. <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/thurlow.html>.
"'Unfriend' Named New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year." PR Newswire. 16 November 2009. 27 March 2010. <http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unfriend-named-new-oxford-american-dictionarys-2009-word-of-the-year-70201607.html>.
Ward, Lucy. "Texting 'is no bar to literacy.'" The Guardian: 23 December 2004. 29 March 2010. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/dec/23/schools.mobilephones>.
Zimmer, Ben. "Dictionaries Roll Out New Words." Visual Thesaurus: 8 July 2008. 27 March 2010. <http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1452/>.
Head picture from http://www.motherproof.com/advice-safety/story/more-states-crack-down-on-texting-and-driving/. Note that each page's picture links to its source.