User:Haley McDaniel/Keysmash/Bibliography

= Bibliography =

Gretchen McCulloch's book, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, discusses the process of creating a keysmash and the patterns that can be observed emerging through its use. The book talks about the influences behind these patterns and the use of the QWERTY keyboards as well as the newer touchscreen keypads and how they affect these keysmash patterns. Along with this she also describes what makes a keysmash recognizable. McCulloch writes about the meaning and usage behind keysmash as well as the touching on the habit of certain internet users and how some will rework or retype their keysmash if it does not ‘look right’. McCullouch has done several studies over the topic and has worked to gather a variety of data in order to be able to write about what a keysmash is and what it does. The portion of her book which discusses the keysmash spans several pages, but is not the focal point of the book.

Ygartua’s piece is a final thesis. Wikipedia has a general warning applied to these types of sources and tells writers to be wary of them and choose wisely. Ygartua has several pages dedicated specifically to that of the keysmash. These pages include several data charts depicting a short overview of the final result of the study he conducted. The data charts show the usage of keysmashes within a variety of different groups consisting of several hundred Twitter users as well as the frequency of the most used letters seen in the documented cases of keysmashes. His data seems to indicate a focus on QWERTY keyboard users compared to McCulloch who discussed a variety of different keyboards. His study also focuses solely on the social media platform, Twitter. But, I believe the data Ygartua collected about the most used letters when keysmashing will be a strong addition to my wikipedia article.


 * Yes, the fact that most of the academic sources about keysmashes are theses and dissertations is the only thing that makes me nervous about this article notability-wise. But I agree with you that Ygartua's data seems well-collected and thoughtful. And having McCulloch as a source helps a lot, notability-wise. Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Dictionary.com is one of the first widely used dictionaries to include the word keysmash among its many definitions. Perhaps one of the most useful things about this source is its dating of the term with an approximate span of time where the term was originally used. The term ‘keysmash’ is also listed as both a noun and a verb on the site which is something I have not seen mentioned in any of the other sources I have looked at. I am wary of using a source like this one. But, Wikipedia does not mention anything specifically against any online dictionaries such as this one, but does caution against out of date dictionaries, and/or (online) dictionaries with standards that are lower with a lack of consistency, and enforcement.


 * Dictionary.com should be a fine source. It's strange that they date the term to 1995-2000 without specific sources. You might look to Google Trends for a little more specific detail about the rise of interest in the term: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=keysmash Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Two other thoughts:

Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 19:28, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) You might try looking for uses of the term "keyboard mash," which was I think more common a few years ago. There was an xkcd comic about keyboard mashing: https://xkcd.com/1530/
 * 2) Searching "sksksk" brought me a bunch of more recent articles talking about "keyboard mash"/"keyboard smash" in the context of VSCO girl culture. You might want to have a section about VSCO girl keysmashes, or about cell phone keysmashes more generally. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/this-is-why-vsco-girls-keep-saying-sksksksk https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/sksksk-meaning/