{"id":995,"date":"2018-12-05T20:44:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T20:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/?p=995"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:44:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T20:44:52","slug":"the-future-of-instant-messaging-lateefa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/2018\/12\/05\/the-future-of-instant-messaging-lateefa\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of Instant Messaging &#8211; Lateefa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobile smart phones have become widely accessible and with\nthem is the access to instant messaging; Through apps like WhatsApp and\nFacebook Messenger sending a message to someone from your phone takes seconds\nand everyone is permanently available. With the advent of instant messaging, we\nlost something; which was the need to log onto a platform to communicate. By\nlooking at how instant messaging has transformed from AOL Instant Messaging and\nWindows Messenger from the late 90\u2019s to WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, I am\nhoping to examine what the possible future of messaging would be by comparing\nthe different affordances offered by these platforms and how they have shaped\ncommunication. \u00a0For example; how the\nconstant access we have to social media\/instant messaging makes us less\nsusceptible to phone calls but also through our continuous online status we\nhave lost the urge to physically \u201clog in\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile smart phones have become widely accessible and with them is the access to instant messaging; Through apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger sending a message to someone from your phone takes seconds and everyone is permanently available. With the advent of instant messaging, we lost something; which was the need to log onto a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commtech.nyuadim.com\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}