کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
400935 1439026 2010 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Cultural differences, experience with social networks and the nature of “true commitment” in Facebook
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر هوش مصنوعی
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Cultural differences, experience with social networks and the nature of “true commitment” in Facebook
چکیده انگلیسی

Formed on an analysis of design practices, the behaviour chain model stipulates that social network designer’s ultimate aim is to encourage users to adopt the social network site by entering a phase of true commitment. During this phase, social network users are driven to connect to known or unknown others by engaging in instrumental uses that create value and content and involve others, while staying active and loyal by investing time in the site. This paper investigates how designer’s intentions, as captured by the behaviour chain model, materialise through users’ reported practices in the social network site Facebook. A total of 423 Facebook users from 5 countries answered a questionnaire that allowed us to examine how 2 user characteristics, experience with the site, and culture, shape the nature of true commitment. Our findings show that experience with the site and even more so, culture, have an effect on users’ motivations for using Facebook, as well as their instrumental uses and the time they invest on the site. This analysis reifies the behaviour chain model by allowing designers to understand how the features they design are embodied in users’ practices.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Volume 68, Issue 10, October 2010, Pages 719–728
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