Written Communication Jan 2023

Modeling Mobile Writing: Applying Sociocognitive Models of Writing to Mobile Contexts

Joel Schneier University of Central Florida

Abstract

Current cognitive and sociocognitive models of writing conceptualize writing processes as complex interactions between multidimensional mechanisms that activate a writer’s social motivations, psychomotor processes, and cognitive resources in order to engage in writing. These models have been developed through years of empirical research employing a variety of data channels, such as keystroke logging; however, research about mobile writing processes have been understudied. This paper presents a study of mobile writing processes that used keystroke-logging methods in order to expand scholarship of writing processes into the realm of mobile writing. By examining how participants ( N = 10) wrote on mobile devices at the keystroke level, as well as combining textual and keystroke analysis to examine context text-message (SMS) composition, this study argues for theoretically framing mobile writing as an embodied performance.

Journal
Written Communication
Published
2023-01-01
DOI
10.1177/07410883221131543
Open Access
Closed
Topics
empirical research multimodality multilingual writers

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