Determinants of virtual social networks diffusion: Insights from cross-country data

Krishnan, Satish; Lymm, John

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.055

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“…In addition, a diagnosis can be established that guides and defines public policies (Islas, 2015) to each context. This study confirms that ICT infrastructure (Krishnan & Lymm, 2016) influences the level of use and largely defines the digital divide. About the results presented by IWS (2016) on digital inclusion, Mexico is below average in Latin America and the Caribbean while Spain is slightly above the average in Europe.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 72%

“…The technological revolution that has marked the development of the ICTs has also become a kind of cultural revolution establishing new lifestyles, behaviors, and forms of communication and interaction (Aguilar, 2016;Krishnan &Lymm, 2016); in fact, the ICTs create and redefine cultural ways of living (Jódar, 2009). It is important to mention that young people are the ones who have been the focus of research on the appropriation of ICTs more specific on the use of the mobile phone and their connection complicity to be present in the VSN (Fonseca Mantilla, 2015;Almansa, Fonseca, & Castillo, 2013;Chang et al, 2016;Islas, 2015;González Hernández, 2015;Reig, Dolors, Vílchez, 2013;Kim, 2014;Chamarro, Bertran, Oberst, & Torres-Rodríguez, 2016;Hidalgo, 2016;Niño et al, 2014).…”

Section: The Information Society and Social Network Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…VSNs are social technologies derived from Web 2.0 that allow the generation of virtual communities from the connection, production, interaction and information exchange of an unlimited group of people who share interests in common (Criado & Rojas-Martín, 2016), who keep interactions amongst individuals that are geographically dispersed around the world (Krishnan & Lymm, 2016), for instance, communicative structures, connected and potentialized through the internet (Castells, 2009). …”

Section: The Information Society and Social Network Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Use and Appropriation of Virtual Social Networks: Mexico and Spain, a Cross-Cultural Study

Lafuente¹,

Calderón²,

Moreno³

2017

IJMS

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Virtual social networks (VSN) represent a phenomenon that continues reconfiguring the social dynamics. They have gone from the embryonic stage to a stage of maturity where it is observed that the context uses and appropriates those considered useful, giving them the use that seems to fit. Thus, Mexico and Spain contexts have specific characteristics and conditions. The aim of this study is to describe the access and appropriations of VSN, both in Mexico and in Spain and to show the challenges they face. The structure of this research is primarily an introduction to explain social networks as a current media phenomenon to later compare how each context has accessed, used and fitted these social networks into their own contexts. Finally, it will be discussed how Spain and Mexico face their challenges and last how each country treat the social media either as a threat or as an opportunity.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 72%

Section: The Information Society and Social Network Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Information Society and Social Network Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Use and Appropriation of Virtual Social Networks: Mexico and Spain, a Cross-Cultural Study

Lafuente¹,

Calderón²,

Moreno³

2017

IJMS

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“…For example, opinion surveys have found that people in European countries with high UAI scored higher in aggressive nationalism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia, including beliefs that immigrants should be sent back to their countries of origin [ 27 ]. People living in high UAI countries are reluctant to purchase newly launched products or adopt technological innovations, including the Internet [ 28 ], mobile phones [ 29 ], SNS [ 30 ], and B2C e-commerce [ 25 ]. This attitude may extend to consumption of foreign videos:…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural values and cross-cultural video consumption on YouTube

Park

Baek

et al. 2017

PLoS ONE

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Video-sharing social media like YouTube provide access to diverse cultural products from all over the world, making it possible to test theories that the Web facilitates global cultural convergence. Drawing on a daily listing of YouTube’s most popular videos across 58 countries, we investigate the consumption of popular videos in countries that differ in cultural values, language, gross domestic product, and Internet penetration rate. Although online social media facilitate global access to cultural products, we find this technological capability does not result in universal cultural convergence. Instead, consumption of popular videos in culturally different countries appears to be constrained by cultural values. Cross-cultural convergence is more advanced in cosmopolitan countries with cultural values that favor individualism and power inequality.

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“…Of these HNCD has been widely used and cited in different disciplines. For instance, the previous researchers have applied these dimensions in business (e.g., Chan & Cheung, ), marketing (e.g., Garrett, Buisson, & Yap, ), human‐computer interaction (e.g., Krishnan & Lymm, ), management and leadership (e.g., Černe, Jaklič, & Škerlavaj, ), tourism (e.g., Matzler, Strobl, Stokburger‐Sauer, Bobovnicky, & Bauer, ), accounting (e.g., Kitching, Mashruwala, & Pevzner, ), long‐range planning (e.g., Garcia‐Sanchez, Cuadrado‐Ballesteros, & Frias‐Aceituno, ).…”

Section: Theoretical Foundationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Patterns of Information Source Use: A Global Study of 47 Countries

Khosrowjerdi

Sundqvist

Byström

2019

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between national culture and information source use (ISU) on a global level. A secondary analysis was carried out on three different data sets. They were (a) country-level data on ISU from World Values Survey (2005-2009); (b) countryspecific mean scores of Hofstede's national culture dimensions (HNCD) of individualism (IDV), power distance (PDI), time orientation, uncertainty avoidance (UAI), masculinity (MAS), and indulgence (IVR); and (c) measures of wealth. The analysis showed the importance of three national culture dimensions of PDI (the way people of a nation interact with authorities), IDV (the degree of centrality of person or groups in a country), and IVR (the agreeableness of joy and happiness in a country) for explaining the crosscultural differences of ISU. The findings were explained through HNCD, and four cultural patterns of ISU were identified. However, further research is required to better understand the complex relationships of cultural factors, ISU, and other societal variables.

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Determinants of virtual social networks diffusion: Insights from cross-country data

Cited by 34 publications

References 35 publications

Use and Appropriation of Virtual Social Networks: Mexico and Spain, a Cross-Cultural Study

Use and Appropriation of Virtual Social Networks: Mexico and Spain, a Cross-Cultural Study

Cultural values and cross-cultural video consumption on YouTube

Cultural Patterns of Information Source Use: A Global Study of 47 Countries

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