Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: WhatsApp-ening with mobile instant messaging?

KE Anderson - Library Hi Tech News, 2016 - emerald.com
… The use of mobile messaging (MM) or mobile instant messaging has grown in the past
few … MM apps are defined in this report as “services that provide private one-to-one or one-to-…

Forensic investigation of social media and instant messaging services in Firefox OS: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Telegram, OpenWapp, and Line as case studies

MN Yusoff, A Dehghantanha, R Mahmod - … digital forensic investigations of …, 2017 - Elsevier
… Therefore mobile devices are an important evidentiary piece in digital investigation… social
media and instant messaging services in Firefox OS. We examined three social media services

“What do they snapchat about?” Patterns of use in time-limited instant messaging service

L Piwek, A Joinson - Computers in human behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
… to other instant messaging services. We … social capital. We discuss those findings in the
context of existing studies on the use of instant messaging services and social networking sites

An empirical study of the wechat mobile instant messaging service

Q Deng, Z Li, Q Wu, C Xu, G Xie - 2017 IEEE Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… now also providing online social networking (called Moments), social media (through Official
Accounts), as well as mobile payment services. The Moments service allows users to share …

The effect of instant messaging services on society's mental health

MS Rosenbaum, IKA Wong - Journal of Services Marketing, 2012 - emerald.com
… to show how instant messaging (IM) service providers are … services provide users with an
ability to obtain instantaneous … AOL, and social networking providers including Facebook and …

[PDF][PDF] Extracting social networks from instant messaging populations

J Resig, S Dawara, CM Homan, A Teredesai - Proc. of ACM SIGKDD, 2004 - academia.edu
… in social networks such as instant messaging services. We first introduced the problem of
defining the various ways in which relationships can exist between a set of instant messaging

Examining the role of tie strength in users' continuance intention of second-generation mobile instant messaging services

X Gong, MKO Lee, Z Liu, X Zheng - Information Systems Frontiers, 2020 - Springer
… Second-generation mobile instant messaging (SMIM) is a new structure of social media … in
social networks and support fundamental functions. However, tie strength, as a social network

Political talk on mobile instant messaging services: A comparative analysis of Germany, Italy, and the UK

A Valeriani, C Vaccari - Information, Communication & Society, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… Facebook Messenger, … messages via their mobile devices. These platforms are challenging,
and in some countries surpassing, social networking sites (SNS) as the most adopted digital

Instant messaging and social networks: The advantages in online research methodology

K Oseni, K Dingley, P Hart - International Journal of …, 2018 - researchportal.port.ac.uk
… are defined according to [11] as web-based services that connect individuals on a public …
In a related development, [11] added that social network sites are a web-based service that …

The use of social media, e-mail and instant messaging as the predictors of an employee's work performance

AI Iskandar, AF Arham, N Shohaime - Journal of Academia, 2017 - myjms.mohe.gov.my
… has become common tools used to deliver messages to get … , instant messaging and social
network to improve work performance. This study was conducted at one of the public service