When a student texts his friends with familiar abbreviations and acronyms but e-mails his professors with carefully written and edited messages e-mails,he is using the media for
A) impression management
B) status reassignment
C) interactional staging
D) temporal regionalization
E) audience resegregation

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The student is using different communication styles depending on the audience, in order to manage the impression they make on others. With friends, they use familiar language, but with professors, they take care to write well-edited messages to convey a professional image.

When a Student Texts His Friends with Familiar Abbreviations and Acronyms