Young characters in youth media are in a permanent state of multimodal and multimedia authorship. At the center of these writing scenes (cf. Campe 1991, Stingelin 2004), however, is not art production but everyday, text-based communication: texting. Depictions go far beyond pure tokenism for the purpose of simple authenticity effects in the representation of youth culture. Digital text-image-audio messages are often vividly visualized, have their own aesthetic design and fulfil multiple narrative functions. Texting scenes can be defined as dialogical writing scenes. Through texting young characters establish a connection between themselves and their social environment, to negotiate questions of community and identity. Messages must be generated, often in a process of selection and revision, and, if they receive a response, interpreted. The mode of communication provides a way of disclosing the inner and the forbidden, is tendentially intimate and honest. In doing so, texting adds a complex facet to the integration and analysis of technology in youth media.