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A Social Cognitive Theory of Internet Uses and Gratifications: Toward a New Model of Media Attendance
Robert LaRose,Matthew S. Eastin +1 more
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This article used structural equation modeling techniques to test a new model of media attendance in which active consideration of Internet uses and gratifications, moderated by Internet self-efficacy, joins habitual behavior and deficient self-regulation as determinants of media behavior.Abstract:
Recent research explaining Internet usage has both extended and challenged the uses and gratifications approach to understanding media attendance by discovering "new" gratifications and introducing powerful new explanatory variables. The present research integrates these developments into a theory of media attendance within the framework of Bandura's (1 986) Social Cognitive Theory. Respondents from 2 Midwestern states were recruited by mail to complete an online questionnaire. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to test a.new model of media attendance in which active consideration of Internet uses and gratifications, moderated by Internet self-efficacy, joins habitual behavior and deficient self-regulation as determinants of media behavior. The model explained 42% of the variance in Internet usage. ,read more
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스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet
Sherry Turkle,유식 최 +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Sherry Turkle uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, virtual reality, and the on-line way of life.
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Being immersed in social networking environment: Facebook groups, uses and gratifications, and social outcomes.
TL;DR: The analysis of the relationship between users' needs and civic and political participation indicated that, as predicted, informational uses were more correlated toivic and political action than to recreational uses.
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The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information
Martin Hilbert,Priscila López +1 more
TL;DR: An inventory of the world’s technological capacity from 1986 to 2007 reveals the evolution from analog to digital technologies, and the majority of the authors' technological memory has been in digital format since the early 2000s.
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News sharing in social media: The effect of gratifications and prior experience
Chei Sian Lee,Long Ma +1 more
TL;DR: Results from structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis revealed that respondents who were driven by gratifications of information seeking, socializing, entertainment, status seeking, and status seeking were more likely to share news in social media platforms.
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The digital divide shifts to differences in usage
TL;DR: It is found that people with low levels of education and disabled people are using the Internet for more hours a day in their spare time than higher educated and employed populations and what they are doing online is investigated.
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스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet
Sherry Turkle,유식 최 +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Sherry Turkle uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, virtual reality, and the on-line way of life.
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Social cognitive theory of self-regulation☆
TL;DR: In social cognitive theory human behavior is extensively motivated and regulated by the ongoing exercise of self-influence as discussed by the authors, and the major self-regulative mechanism operates through three principal sub-functions: self-monitoring of one's behavior, its determinants, and its effects; judgment of behavior in relation to personal standards and environmental circumstances; and affective self-reaction.