The World Wide Web as a Functional Alternative to Television

Ferguson, Douglas A.; Perse, Elizabeth M.

doi:10.1207/s15506878jobem4402_1

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“…traditional or interactive media). It has been applied in various media including: radio (Herzog, 1940), TV (Bantz, 1982;Weaver III, 2003), cinema (Weaver III, Brosius & Mundorf, 1993), newspapers (Leung & Wei, 1998) and the Internet (Ferguson & Perse, 2000;Flanagin & Metzger, 2001). With regard to the latter, the Uses and Gratifications theory has been applied in a wide range of topics: for example, online games (Li , Lui, Xu, Heikkilä & Heijden, 2015); Web-based information services (Luo et al, 2011;Luo & Remus, 2014); Internet news browsing ; social networks (Johnson & Kaye, 2015) or SVWs (Mäntymäki & Riemer, 2014).…”

Section: Uses and Gratifications Theory And Research Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Second Life adoption in education: A motivational model based on Uses and Gratifications theory

Gallego

Bueno

Noyes

2016

Computers & Education

107

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Section: Uses and Gratifications Theory And Research Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Second Life adoption in education: A motivational model based on Uses and Gratifications theory

Gallego

Bueno

Noyes

2016

Computers & Education

107

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“…It was originally applied to television viewing and the usage of traditional media (e.g., Conway and Rubin, 1991). Modified versions of the U&G approach have been successfully applied to new interactive media (e.g., Dimmick et al, 2000;Ferguson and Perse, 2000;LaRose et al, 2001;Ruggiero, 2000;Stafford et al, 2004) including social media (e.g., Shao, 2009). Six motives have been identified as especially relevant to social media usage (Shao, 2009;Courtois et al, 2009), namely information, entertainment, social interaction, community development, self-expression, and self-actualisation.…”

Section: Uses and Gratification Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

It’s All About Information? The Following Behaviour of Professors and PhD Students in Computer Science on Twitter

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Hadgu

Hoffmann

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Article available under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. ABSTRACTIn this paper we investigate the role of the academic status in the following behaviour of computer scientists on Twitter. Based on a uses and gratifications perspective, we focus on the activity of a Twitter account and the reciprocity of following relationships. We propose that the account activity addresses the users' information motive only, whereas the user's academic status relates to both the information motive and community development (as in peer networking or career planning).Variables were extracted from Twitter user data. We applied a biographical approach to correctly identify the academic status (professor versus PhD student). We calculated a 2 × 2 MANOVA on the influence of the activity of the account and the academic status (on different groups of followers) to differentiate the influence of the information motive versus the motive for community development.Results suggest that for computer scientists Twitter is mainly an information network. However, we found significant effects in the sense of career planning, that is, the accounts of professors had even in the case of low activity a relatively high number of researcher followers -both PhD followers as well as professor followers. Additionally, there was also some weak evidence for community development gratifications in the sense of peer-networking of professors.Overall, we conclude that the academic use of Twitter is not only about information, but also about career planning and networking.

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“…To operationalize the SNSs entertainment motivation an inventory of 29 items was generated from Lin (1993), Bosshart and Macconi (1998), Ferguson and Perse (2000), Papacharissi and Rubin (2000), Flanagin and Metzger (2001), Quan-Haase and Young (2010) and Jere and Davis (2011) by using deductive method of scale development. Deductive method is considered to be an important process of scale development (Clark & Watson, 1995).…”

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Impact of Entertainment Motivational Drivers on User Acceptance of Online Social Network Banner Advertising: A Gratification Perspective

Mir

2017

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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The World Wide Web as a Functional Alternative to Television

Cited by 394 publications

References 4 publications

Second Life adoption in education: A motivational model based on Uses and Gratifications theory

Second Life adoption in education: A motivational model based on Uses and Gratifications theory

It’s All About Information? The Following Behaviour of Professors and PhD Students in Computer Science on Twitter

Impact of Entertainment Motivational Drivers on User Acceptance of Online Social Network Banner Advertising: A Gratification Perspective

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