EUGENE, Ore. — A new University of Oregon study found that the language teen girls use in text messages and social media apps, like TikTok and Snapchat, is linked to day-to-day changes in their moods.

Regular readers of this column will know that I am suspicious of cyberspace innovations — from Facebook to MySpace to Second Life — that substitute the accumulation of “friends” for actual friendship, ...

English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...

Together with his students, Su is building a startup called Limitless Mind, which has developed an AI-powered platform that ...

How would you respond if this text pops up on your phone? Tomorrow, EMBM — miss AYOR!!! Could be trouble if you skip, but IANAL. LOL!!!! If you got all of that — GRATZ! — you’re certifiably text ...

Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn’t writing at all — ...