%0 Journal Article
%T Type your listenership: An exploration of listenership in instant messages
%A Hanwool Choe
%J Discourse Studies
%@ 1461-7080
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1461445618770471
%X This case study investigates how people ¡®listen¡¯ and act as ¡®listeners¡¯ in instant messages. Little research has been done on listenership and listeners in text-based digital discourse; to address this gap, I analyze a group instant message conversation among five Korean young women via KakaoTalk, a free instant messaging application. Demonstrating previous studies on listenership and listeners in spoken discourse and defining ¡®listenership¡¯ as the act of giving feedback on prior messages, I identify and explicate four ways of showing listenership in instant message interaction: (1) minimal responses, (2) machine gun listenership, (3) laughing and (4) sticker reaction. My analysis illuminates how verbal and non-verbal forms of listenership are adapted to typed-based online contexts as well as how listenership contributes to the construction of talk in typed-based digital environments
%K Instant messages
%K KakaoTalk
%K Korean discourse
%K laughing
%K listeners
%K listenership
%K machine gun questions
%K minimal responses
%K multimodal cues
%K online discourse
%K repetition
%K sticker
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461445618770471