The Adoption of WhatsApp: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Technological Poverty in South Africa

Shambare, Richard

doi:10.22610/jebs.v6i7.515

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“…WhatsApp is popular in several countries, it is an inexpensive form of communication because of the phone's ability to use free wireless access points or existing data plans to send messages, easy to use due to its simplistic interface, and ad free [8], [32].…”

Section: Whatsappmentioning

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Understanding Saudis' Privacy Concerns When Using WhatsApp

Rashidi¹,

Vaniea²,

Camp³

2016

Proceedings 2016 Workshop on Usable Security

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Managing privacy in mobile instant messaging is a challenge for designers and users alike. If too many options are provided, the privacy controls can become complex to understand and unwieldy to manipulate. Conversely, providing too few controls leaves users without the ability to adequately express their privacy preferences. Further complicating this, a new class of social networks has emerged where one person can add another without mutual consent (i.e. Tumbler, Twitter, and WhatsApp). We present a survey of 626 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Saudi) WhatsApp users to determine their privacy-related behaviors and opinions. We find that Saudi users were aware of the privacy settings and use them especially to limit the visibility of when they were last active. We also find that 83.9% of respondents had been contacted by a stranger through the application. Respondents wanted more control over their membership in groups and the resulting visibility of their private profile information such as phone numbers. We discuss the results in terms of prior privacy and interruptibility awareness literature. Permission to freely reproduce all or part of this paper for noncommercial purposes is granted provided that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Reproduction for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of the Internet Society, the first-named author (for reproduction of an entire paper only), and the author's employer if the paper was prepared within the scope of employment.

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Section: Whatsappmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Saudis' Privacy Concerns When Using WhatsApp

Rashidi¹,

Vaniea²,

Camp³

2016

Proceedings 2016 Workshop on Usable Security

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“…Online shopping is different from brick-and-mortar shopping in many aspects. In traditional shopping, ones has to go to a store or shop, get into it, slowly walking from rack to rack, checking out the display and finally go to the check-out counter (Shambare, 2014). There is limited variety, limited choice of buyers and buyers can buy only those products which are available in local market.…”

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Online Shopping: A Potential of Herding Behavior Symptom?

Hashim¹,

Janor²,

Sidek³

et al. 2018

BMH

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The Internet has grown tremendously in the recent and many of its applications have been used by people all over the world. On-line shopping which is a recent phenomenon in the field of e-commerce is definitely going to be the future of shopping in the world. It seems that online shopping has been one of the ways that customers shop nowadays especially to the younger generations and working people. Most of the young working people have accessed to Internet and many have started to sell and buy online. Though online shopping is quite common now, its growth in Malaysian market is still not in line with the global market. The potential growth of online shopping has triggered the idea of conducting an exploratory study on online shopping in Malaysia. A survey was carried-out with 168 part-time students who work in Klang Valley area and also currently study in UKM. In addition to the survey, 15 face-to-face interviews were carried-out with available respondents after they answer the survey. The purpose is to find out how well they understand about online shopping and what factors contribute to their online shopping behaviors. The results of study reveal that customer satisfaction, motivation and influence from other buyers are among the critical factors for customers to shop online. Respondents since to mimic other customers in buying online. The results of the study could be further used by the researchers and practitioners for conducting future studies in the similar area.

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“…Ultimate features in sending messages, such as the ease of sending pictures and videos makes WhatsApp offer many advantages compared to the previous message service application [11] [12]. Moreover,WhatsApp also provides calling service both voice call and video call for "free", this indeed making WhatsApp more popular [13].…”

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Use of WhatsApp Application on Fruit Marketing Communication

Akhmadi

Susanawati

Utami

et al. 2021

J. inf. organ. sci. (Online)

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WhatsApp is mobile messaging application which is widely used in communication. However, its use in marketing communication is relatively new. This study investigates WhatsApp user profile, factors that influence the use of WhatsApp and relationship between the factors with WhatsApp usage level in fruit marketing communication. Respondents were selected using census method by taking all fruit wholesalers in Giwangan Fruit Central Market, the largest fruit market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Data were analyzed using descriptive methods and Spearman Rank correlation. The results showed that majority of WhatsApp users among traders are male in millennial age, with high school education. Furthermore, the convenience in use and economical reason were the most influential factors in the use of WhatsApp on marketing communication. Moreover, this study found that there was a strong and positive correlation between benefits factors and the use of WhatsApp on fruit marketing communication.

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The Adoption of WhatsApp: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Technological Poverty in South Africa

Cited by 34 publications

References 18 publications

Understanding Saudis' Privacy Concerns When Using WhatsApp

Understanding Saudis' Privacy Concerns When Using WhatsApp

Online Shopping: A Potential of Herding Behavior Symptom?

Use of WhatsApp Application on Fruit Marketing Communication

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