Instant Messaging (IM) is a useful tool for collaborative work. However, the awareness and communication features of IM pose a tension with privacy desires. Inadequate support for...
Instant Messaging (IM) is being widely adopted by teenagers. In a study of 16 teenage IM users, we explore IM as an emerging feature of teen life, focusing our questions on its su...
We present an analysis of privacy attitudes and practices in Instant Messaging based on responses to an online questionnaire. On a 7point Likert scale, the reported concern about ...
We discuss findings from an ethnographic study of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace and its implications for media theory. We describe how instant messaging supports a varie...
At the 2004 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), Borisov, Goldberg and Brewer, presented “Off the Record Messaging” (OTR), a protocol designed to add endto-e...