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Chatbots tend to produce solid writing, but their prose largely reflects a single, uniform voice.
Avoid using the handshake emoji ‘🤝’ if you’re ever unsure. And always keep any business-like arrangements on a more formal footing.
Your phone doesn’t even need to ping for you to be distracted. Here’s how to reclaim your focus.
Mobile phones across the country are buzzing nonstop with text notifications from both presidential campaigns. A scholar of campaign communications explains why.
From asking a partner to pick up dinner on the way home to checking in on a neighbor with health problems, we frequently face the question, ‘What’s the best way to communicate?’
As it closes down 20 years after launching, a look back at the key role AOL Instant Messenger played in preparing people for today’s digital messaging methods.
French is no longer taught as a European language representative of “French” culture in South Africa. New modes of teaching, learning and research speak to an inclusive Africanist agenda.
Digital textbooks might be less cumbersome. But a new series of studies finds that reading from screens can hamper our ability to process and retain information.
Your mobile number is all a hacker needs to read your texts, listen to your calls and even track your whereabouts.
It’s that time of the year when students get ready to enroll in college. But many don’t, even after being accepted. What can be done?
Long before ‘sup’ and ‘hwu’ there was ‘Hw r u ts mng?’
Do English texts stay the same over the decades because there are no good modern books? Or because the process of selecting new books is just too hard?











