Although information system acceptance has received considerable attention in the past two decades, prior studies on competing products are still relatively scant. In the new era of Web 2.0, consumers face with a wide range of products with similar functions and purposes, and therefore, they have to make choice among these competing technologies. Drawn from media richness theory and social iden...

In this paper, following the IT acceptance theory framework, we analyze factors that affect users’ acceptance of micro-blogging in a large corporate environment. We categorized users into 4 groups based on their posting and reading behaviors: Actives, Dabblers, Lurkers and Skeptics. Groups show different perceived benefits, cost concerns, and social influence factors. The work can help both pra...

Academic blogging is now a widely used medium for scholarly communication. A substantial body of literature exists on the potential opportunities and challenges that affords to scholars, yet role blog editors in facilitating research dissemination public engagement remains largely overlooked. This paper draws insights from development academic blogs by London School Economics between 2010 2020....

Our primary goal of this paper is to contribute to a theoretical understanding of why we blog by suggesting a general view on the explosive popularity of blogging through the analysis of the behavior of bloggers and the consumption of blogs from a perspective of the active consumer theory. A further goal is to provide a review of competing theories and previous work that could explain the aspec...

Tertiary institutions are increasingly using online virtual environments such as Blackboard to upload course content for students. However, there is still limited usage of the online blogging and discussion tools. This study describes the language used by tertiary students involved in blogging and discussions online. It also demonstrates learning processes observed through the interactions of p...

BACKGROUND Although more individuals are sharing their experiences with chronic pain or illness through blogging (writing an Internet web log), research on the psychosocial effects and motivating factors for initiating and maintaining a blog is lacking. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine via online questionnaire the perceived psychosocial and health benefits of blogging among patients who...

The development and continuous improvement of campus networks brings new changes to the campus and college life, more and more students are turning to micro-blog to express their views and opinions, and through the micro blogging to achieve fast and efficient sharing and exchange of information and resources. In the micro blog era, the power of micro blogging can not only impact college student...