This pilot study explores how the adoption of technology such as SMS texting and social media platforms has affected communication among millennial-aged Latina graduate students at a Hispanic Serving Institution in Texas. A new form of communicating through text and a digital space has evolved language, and millennials use a variety of texting language while creating an acceptance of digital slang in different settings that now include Border languages such as Spanglish and other new varieties. The study draws on conceptual framework from Lave & Wenger (1991) and their theory on Situated Learning and communities of practice. Lave and Wenger believed that social co-participation could be a learning opportunity; social media networks enable participation among users and will lead to new learned behaviors including a new variety of language, or digital dialect, which may include border language. The study consisted of a series of interviews and artifact analysis, and the intent of the study was to discover the incentives, as well as the attitudes of the users in addition to how Border language affected social media interaction and text communications.

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