In the 2010s, as chat apps became a primary mode of communication for many people across the world, WhatsApp quickly outpaced rival messaging apps and developed into a platform. In this book, the authors provide a comprehensive account of WhatsApp’s global growth. Charting WhatsApp’s evolution from its founding in 2009 to the present day, they argue that WhatsApp has been transformed from a simple, ‘gimmickless’ app into a global communication platform. Understanding this development can shed light on the trajectory of Meta’s industrial development, and how digital economies and social media landscapes are evolving with the rise of ‘superapps’. This book explores how WhatsApp’s unique characteristics mediate new kinds of social and commercial transactions; how they pose new opportunities and challenges for platform regulation, civic participation and democracy; and how they give rise to new kinds of digital literacy as WhatsApp becomes integrated into everyday digital cultures across the globe. Accessibly written, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars of digital media, cultural studies, and media and communications.

WhatsApp is a popular mobile application that was founded in 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton. The app allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, share images, documents, user locations, and other media. In addition to personal messaging, WhatsApp also offers a range of features for businesses, including WhatsApp Business, which allows small businesses to communicate with their customers and share updates over the app. WhatsApp has grown to become one of the most widely used messaging apps in the world, with over 2 billion active users across 180 countries. WhatsApp makes use of end-to-end encryption to ensure that only the sender and recipient of a message can access its contents. The company has been praised for its commitment to user privacy, although it has also faced scrutiny over its handling of false information and its role in facilitating political unrest. Nevertheless, the app remains a vital tool for communication and connection, particularly in countries where other messaging apps are restricted or banned. Its continued popularity is a testament to the users' trust in its security and reliability.

WhatsApp is used by over half a billion people in India today in all fields – in business, corporate and informal sectors, in government, for education and among friends, families and acquaintances. This book critically explores the social messaging app’s rapid expansion in India and its growing influence and looks at whether, as a form of horizontal communication, it poses a challenge to more traditional structures of communication. The book examines WhatsApp’s spread in the personal and professional lives of Indians and the myriad ways in which people in India are using the app in social and business interactions, including among people living with disabilities. Using case studies, interviews, surveys and in-depth research, it analyses key aspects of WhatsApp’s massive popularity and its impact on how people communicate. It also explores its impact on the psycho-social dynamics in India, including the dissemination of fake news and politically motivated content, and the consequent need for media regulation in the country. One of the first books to analyse the pervasiveness of WhatsApp and social media apps in different areas of Indian society, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of media studies, communication studies, digital media, cultural studies, cyberculture studies, sociology and social policy and media law.

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Digital discourse has become a widespread way of communicating worldwide, WhatsApp being one of the most popular Instant Messaging tools. This book offers a critical state-of-the-art review of WhatsApp linguistic studies.

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in over 80% of countries in West Africa, and a daily port of call for a wide range of information and services. This edited collection seeks to examine the impact that this transformative technology has had beyond the much-discussed role it has played in the spread of misinformation, and explore more widely the fundamental changes that WhatsApp has brought to many citizens' lives in social, economic and political contexts. Ranging across subjects including political organisation, religious practice, and family relations, each author in this volume brings direct knowledge and testimony of the impact of WhatsApp across West African society.

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: The Grammar of Text Messaging, language: English, abstract: Building on previous studies and research conducted in the conversation analysis (CA) field of repair, with special regards to repair in chat-based communication, this paper will examine the extent by which the asterisk symbol is used for repair in WhatsApp chats. Furthermore, the paper will pinpoint the environments in which it is used and try to determine patterns of usage. As instant messaging services began to gain in numbers and importance, linguists working in the conversation analysis (CA) field started to apply the principles of CA that originally were only defined as applicable for spoken interactions onto chat-based interactions. While research initially focused more on the system of turn taking and its similarities and differences from the oral turn taking system, after the turn of the century, researchers began looking into other aspects of chat- based communication that could be analysed on the basis of CA. Among them, the aspect of repair. A very common phenomenon that occurs in online communication, and especially in WhatsApp chats, is the appearance of the little star symbol *. This symbol, called the asterisk, derived from the Greek word for “little star", serves a variety of purposes in a variety of fields, including mathematics, programming and, as we will see shortly, text messaging. While it can appear in relation to annotations, mathematical formulas and even Google search requests, in text messaging, the asterisk is most commonly used for either bolding or emphasising of words, adding information about tone or repairing a mistake that was previously made.

Are you tired of the constant struggle of figuring out how to use the basic functions of Whatsapp Messenger? How do you know if your message has been read or not?How do you mute the constant notifications from the work group chat you cannot leave without losing your yearly bonus?How do you pin chats of a loved one so that you do not forget to reply to their messages?How do you call or message friends and family living in different cities and that too without spending any money? "How do I use WhatsApp?!" will help you out with all of the above and much much more. Installing WhatsApp on your iPhone or Android smartphone *Learn how to download and install WhatsApp from the App Store (iPhone) or Play Store (Android)*Learn how to verify your mobile number, choose your profile picture and name while setting up WhatsApp*Learn how to add new contacts to WhatsApp Messaging and Group Chat *Learn how to send all the different types of messages possible with WhatsApp*Learn how you can see when your message has been received and read *Learn how you can stop read receipts and last seen online settings to increase privacy*Learn how to search, delete, forward and reply to messages*Learn how to create a new group and add new members*Learn how to change notification settings WhatsApp Calling *Learn the difference between a normal phone call and a WhatsApp call*Learn how to make and receive an audio or video WhatsApp call*Learn how you can activate the low data mode to reduce the data used while making a WhatsApp call*Learn how to make a group audio or video call WhatsApp Status Update *Learn how to add different types of status updates*Learn how to change who all can view your status update*Learn who all have seen your update and how to mute other's updates WhatsApp Web *Learn how to use WhatsApp on your computer*Learn how to send different types of messages *Learn how to delete, forward, reply and star messages*Learn how to view status updates and change notification settings on the webScreenshots for iPhone and Android users accompany the written explanation to make the process of understanding the features of WhatsApp as easy as possible. The goal of the book is to make you completely comfortable with downloading, installing and using all the important features of WhatsApp. "How do I use WhatsApp?!" is the compiled version of the WhatsApp Learners Series of books. "How do I use WhatsApp Chat", "How do I use WhatsApp Calling" and "How do I use WhatsApp Status Updates" are books 1,2 and 3 of the WhatsApp Learners series

WhatsApp Messenger is one of the most downloaded apps in the world. With over 600 million users, and having just been purchased by Facebook, it seems like there is no slowing down for this Android messaging giant. We've covered it extensively since it came on the scene, and we've lost count of how many articles it has appeared in. That's why we've collected them all for you here! Read on to find out all of our WhatsApp tutorials, guides and comparisons.

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