Instant Messaging (IM) Literacy in the Workplace
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This chapter discusses instant messaging (IM) as a valuable digital tool that has influenced business communication practices at least as much as e-mail. It argues that IM’s characteristics of presence awareness, synchronicity, hybridity, and interactivity create a unique set of writing and reading experiences. These functional qualities both require and hone high-level writing and reading skills, which are used powerfully in communicative multitasking. The authors believe that IM should be sanctioned in the workplace and that IM use should be a subject of focused training; to that end, they provide a practical, literacy-based training sequence that can be adapted to various settings.
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2012 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 165-169
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2005 ◽
Vol 68
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pp. 36-43
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2014 ◽
Vol 62
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pp. 233-252
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2017 ◽
Vol 13
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pp. 77-90
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2016 ◽
pp. 46-47