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Everything about Instant messaging
Form of computer communication over the internet or locally
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of synchronous computer-mediated communication involving the immediate (real-time) transmission of messages between two or more parties over the Internet or another computer network. Originally involving simple text message exchanges, modern instant messaging applications and services tend to also feature the exchange of multimedia, emojis, file transfer, VoIP, and video chat capabilities. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Instant messagingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Effects of using mobile instant messaging on student behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement: a quasi-experimental studyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Twitter for dummiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Uses and Gratifications of Social Media: A Comparison of Facebook and Instant MessagingCited 781 times
- Go sideways: XMPPA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Google TalkA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A form of realtime communication where two or more people exchange text messages, usually short, using computers or other devices with communications capabilities.
Verb present participle and gerund of instant message
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Uses and Gratifications of Social Media: A Comparison of Facebook and Instant Messaging
Understanding customer satisfaction and loyalty: An empirical study of mobile instant messages in China
Exploring Chinese users’ acceptance of instant messaging using the theory of planned behavior, the technology acceptance model, and the flow theory
An expectation-confirmation model of continuance intention to use mobile instant messaging
Privacy Concerns Versus Desire for Interpersonal Awareness in Driving the Use of Self-Disclosure Technologies: The Case of Instant Messaging in Two Cultures
Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading
Examining mobile instant messaging user loyalty from the perspectives of network externalities and flow experience
Understanding users' switching behavior of mobile instant messaging applications: An empirical study from the perspective of push-pull-mooring framework
🆕 Influential since 2022
Effects of using mobile instant messaging on student behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement: a quasi-experimental study
Age and gender in language, emoji, and emoticon usage in instant messages
Why is instant messaging not instant? Understanding users’ negative use behavior of instant messaging software
Instant messaging, interruptions, stress and work performance
Institutionalized Riot Networks in India and Mobile Instant Messaging Platforms
📚 Books worth reading
Twitter for dummiesLaura Fitton · 2010
ttylLauren Myracle · 2004
L8r, g8rLauren Myracle · 2007
The Twitter BookTim O'Reilly, Sarah Milstein · 2009
XMPPPeter Saint-André, Kevin Smith · 2009
ttfnLauren Myracle · 2006
FlirtextingOlivia Baniuszewicz · 2009
SIPAlan B. Johnston · 2001
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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