Social media ‘on the go’: Examining the impact of age

Social media can, therefore, be seen as an extension of people’s lives with opportunities to construct virtual identities as well as personal, social and professional spaces that altogether extend boundaries of offline contexts. Social media consumption is particularly immersive and complex in the cases when individuals are accessing and using social media on the go, via mobile devices. Although extensive number of studies explored the consumers’ adoption of mobile technology and adoption of social media, adoption of mobile social media (consumption of social media on mobile devices) remains underexplored. Moreover, existing research on social media adoption has identified two generational groups, generation Y (aged 18-25) and generation X (aged 35-60) which have active use of social media, although their motives and attitudes towards social media as well as consumption patterns differ. With the increased use of social media ‘on the go’, no existing studies have investigated the generational gap in the adoption and use of mobile social media (MSM). Hence, this work-in-progress paper aims to address identified research gaps by proposing and justifying conceptual model to be examined via mixed research method

Effects of Users Familiarity and Trust on Perceived Community Support

The growing use of social network sites raises the question of what encourages members to create and foster perceived community support. The success of a social network site – as a community of relationships – is precisely the development of a potential source of support and participation in it, and consequently, a sense of membership, identity, and attachment to it. The purpose of this research is particularly to expand theoretical research of what contributes to perceived community support, focusing on users’ familiarity and trust. On the one hand, familiarity is described as the extent to which consumers know about a social network site. Less familiarised users tend to engage in community participation but in a limited way, preferring to be readers rather than writers. On the other hand, social capital exists when users have a strong identification and trust within the social network site. Lack of trust will represent one of the reasons explaining lurking behavior. To sum up, our study proposes evaluating the effects of users’ familiarity and trust on perceived community support.Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Economía, Innovación y Ciencia Research Excellence Program: SEJ-5801/ P09-SEJ-4568 / P10-SEJ-6081; Research Group: SEJ-49

Exploring the dark side of online social networks: A taxonomy of negative effects on users

© 26th European Conference on Information Systems: Beyond Digitization - Facets of Socio-Technical Change, ECIS 2018. All Rights Reserved. The use of online social networks (OSNs) has grown substantially over the past few years and many studies have reported the benefits and positive effects of using these platforms. However, the negative effects of OSNs have received little attention. Given the lack of a comprehensive picture of the dark side of using OSNs, we conducted a systematic literature review of the top information systems journals to categorise negative effects and develop a taxonomy of the dark side of OSNs use. Our review of 20 papers identified 43 negative effects of OSNs use, which we grouped into six categories: cost of social exchange, annoying content, privacy concerns, security threats, cyber bullying and low performance that formed the holistic view of dark side of OSNs use. This paper discusses implications of the findings, identifies gaps in the literature and provides a roadmap for future research

An Empirical Study of Collective Continuance Intention on Virtual Community Page of Social Network Site

Web 2.0 sociable technologies (such as social network sites, SNS) create new online interpersonal collaboration and communication. Particularly, given the proliferation of virtual community page (VCP, ex. Facebook fan page and group) participation, the sustainability of VCP has been recognized as a critical issue. While existing studies have started to address this issue through classical individual-based models to investigate the use of SNS, some argued that individual approach may not be appropriate view point to explain “social” action. To fill this void, drawing on collective intention perspective, this study develops a model that investigates the relationship between organizational citizenship behaviours (OCBs), social loafing, group cohesion, and collective continuance intention on VCP of SNS. Based on 139 Facebook VCP users, we confirm our hypotheses that group cohesion positively affects OCBs which in turn influences collective continuance intention on VCP. Our research model broadens our knowledge about collective continuance intention on VCP of SNS

Towards a cohesive theory of cohesion

Conventional wisdom suggests that group cohesion is strongly related to performance. This may be based on the notion that better cohesion leads to the sharing of group goals. However, empirical and meta-analytic studies have been unable to consistently demonstrate a relationship between cohesion and performance. Partially, this problem could be attributed to the disagreement on the precise definition of cohesion and its components. Further, when the cohesion construct is evaluated under Cohen’s Cumulative Research Program (CRP), it is surprisingly found to belong to the category of early-to-intermediate stage of theory development. Therefore, a thorough re-examination of the cohesion construct is essential to advance our understanding of the cohesion-productivity relationship. We propose a qualitative approach because it will help establish the definitions, enable us to better test our theories about cohesion and its moderators, and provide insights into how best to enlist cohesion to improve team performance

Movies that Actually Get History: The Case and a Half of Kashmir Files: A Study in Social Blogging

Producing movies that are loosely based on real-life occurrences can be a challenging endeavour. In order to create a film that is successful, the filmmakers must find a way to strike a delicate balance between telling the story historically accurately and creating compelling drama. Authenticity and accuracy seem to be the two main elements in social history films. I have decided to conduct this exploratory qualitative study using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in order to gain a better understanding of the essence of users on social media platforms. This study reports (1) the responses of moviegoers and critics to the subject matter and content of the film, and (2) investigates the viewers' and critics' perceptions of how discussions about the film took place in the media and the ensuing thermodynamics that were the result of those discussions. The movie in question is the Kashmir Files. Following the introduction in this essay is a presentation of thematical frameworks for analysis. The methodology section further explains the CDA technique utilised, and this entire paper critically examines the two important elements of authenticity and accuracy in this film

Information Technology and Social Loafing:A Qualitative Investigation

While IT-supported teams are increasingly popular, most suffer from an anti-social behavior called social loafing (SL). SL is the tendency to withhold one’s effort when working with others. Past research has examined various determinants and mechanisms of SL but the relationships between IT and SL have remained largely unexplored. Our objectives are to identify the key factors that play a role in SL in IT-supported groups and to investigate how IT can influence SL. Drawing from the literature and on the basis of seven case studies, we identified four categories of factors related to personal, group, organizational and task issues. We will conduct additional cases to advance our theory development on the influence of IT on SL. The implications for research are important since this study provides a better understanding of the determinants of SL and the role IT can play in influencing such behaviors in teams and organizations

Factors Influencing Junior College Students’ Continuance Intention with Mobile Learning at Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences, China

Purpose: This study intends to assess the key variables significantly affecting junior college student's continued interest in mobile learning across four majors at Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences in Sichuan, China. The researcher examined perceived usefulness, confirmation, service quality, system quality, and information quality to determine whether their effects on student satisfaction and continuance intention with mobile learning. Research design, data, and methodology: The researchers applied quantitative exploration methods to 489 samples and distributed quantitative questionnaires to junior college students majoring in English, Chinese language and Literature, Preschool Education, Broadcasting, and Hosting at Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences. The sampling techniques were conducted using purposive, quota and convenience sampling. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) are used to determine the relationships between the variables under study. Results: The findings provide evidence that perceived usefulness, confirmation, service quality, system quality, and information quality are antecedents of satisfaction towards continuance intention. Conclusions: University administrators and teaching staff should pay sufficient attention to the factors which have generated significant influence on the satisfaction of the instruction and consider the correlated teaching adjustment or reform in the future according to the findings of this research

Effects of social loafing to group cohesion and work outcome

Töö eesmärgiks oli uurida sotsiaalse looderdamise mõju grupi sidususele ja töö tulemusele, Shiue, Chiu & Chang (2010) välja töötatud mudeli alusel. Samuti üritati antud mudelit sobitada Eesti konteksti. Antud mudeli uurimiseks kasutati Shiue et al. (2010) töös toodud küsimustiku, mis hõlmas endast väiteid sotsiaalsest sidususest, anonüümsusest, tajutud riskist, meedia rikkalikusest, sotsiaalsetest suhetest, veebivälisest suhtlusest, teadmiste kvaliteedist ja sotsiaalsest looderdamisest. Selleks, et paremini uurida sotsiaalse looderdamise mõju grupi sidususele lisati veel Brawley, Carron & Widmeyer (1987) sotsiaalse sidususe lihtsustatud küsimustik. Küsimustikule vastas kokku 209 inimest kolmest erinevast Eesti ülikoolist. Tulemuste analüüs näitas, et Shiue et al. (2010) mudel sobitub Eesti konteksti ja mudel kehtib ka siis, kui oluline mõõtevahend välja vahetada. Mõlemad sotsiaalse sidususe küsimustikud sobitusid mudelisse hästi - sotsiaalse looderdamise ja sotsiaalse sidususe vahel säilis tugev negatiivne korrelatsioon mõlema mudeli puhul. Aksepteeritud headuskriteeriumite kohaselt on viga liialt suur väitmiseks, et mudel sobitub Eesti konteksti hästi. Üheks olulisemaks tulemuseks oli, et sotsiaalse looderdamise ja tööle antud subjektiivse hinnangu vahel on tugev positiivne korrelatsioon

Impact Of Social Media Advertising On High Energy Drink Preferences And Consumption

Despite the surging appropriation of social media by marketers for communicative marketing of brands, what remains under-explored in literature is the capacity of social media platforms to influence student preferences for brands. This research gap is ironic given the growing literature on the potential of self-images shared on social media to influence consumers’ product preferences and purchase intentions. Drawing on Media Richness Theory, agency, extant literature and authors’ personal reflections on social media adoption for brand selection by students, this theoretical study examines how students navigate such platforms to make informed choices about energy drinks. The findings suggest while students exploited social media platforms intermittently to access energy drink brands, their brand preferences and choices were informed by personal agency (especially personal volition, peer influences, convenience and availability of brands) more than social media networks per se. The study contributes a conceptual model that integrate social media appropriation, consumer decision making, brand preferences and purchases. While the model is untested, its methodological strength lays in its reliance on extant literature, proven concepts, anecdotes of student consumption behavior and authors’ knowledge of social media, which are critical to deepening academics and policy makers’ understanding of social media-brand preference relations in real world contexts