Field Effects of Social Media Platforms on Information Sharing Continuance: Do Reach and Richness Matter?
學年 105
學期 2
出版(發表)日期 2017-03-01
作品名稱 Field Effects of Social Media Platforms on Information Sharing Continuance: Do Reach and Richness Matter?
作品名稱(其他語言)
著者 Shang, S.C.; Wu, Ya-Ling; Li, Eldon Y.
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著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Information and Management 54(2), p.241–255
摘要 Based on the Field Theory, this study postulates that the cognitive processes involved in making decisions to share information on social media platforms could be dynamically affected by network features and the contextual environment. The field effect is exerted by the reach and richness of network features, which virtually form a psychological pressure on one’s perception of the sharing situation. A research model is developed, in which the effects of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators on information-sharing continuance are moderated by the network features of social media platforms. A global sample from content contributors in two major social media platform contexts, experience-socialization (ES) platforms (N = 568) and intelligence-proliferation (IP) platforms (N = 653), were collected through the participatory research method. By using partial least-square analysis, the moderating effects of network features on cognitive-sharing processes under the two contexts were confirmed. For contributors on ES platforms, network features negatively moderate community identification and perceived enjoyment toward information sharing. By contrast, for contributors on IP platforms, network features negatively moderate the effects of perceived usefulness and altruistic tendencies on their intention to share, but self-efficacy for sharing is positively induced. The conceptualization of network features and refined knowledge about the situational and contextual effects of social media platforms are useful for further studies on social behaviors and may ultimately benefit platform providers in their attempts to promote information-sharing continuance.
關鍵字 Social media;Information-sharing continuance;Extrinsic motivation; Intrinsic motivation;Network features;Reach and richness
語言 en
ISSN 0378-7206
期刊性質 國外
收錄於 SSCI
產學合作
通訊作者 Eldon Y. Li
審稿制度
國別 NLD
公開徵稿
出版型式 ,電子版
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