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Why do users continue using social networking sites? An exploratory study of members in the United States and Taiwan

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An extended Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) is drawn on to explore factors that affect members' continued use intention toward Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and to theorize about the intricate relationships among a variety of UGT constructs.
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This article is published in Information & Management.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 231 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Uses and gratifications theory & Continuance.

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Social motivations of live-streaming viewer engagement on Twitch

TL;DR: An eight-factor socio-motivational model, based on Uses and Gratifications Theory, was trialled to explain four aspects of live-stream viewer engagement: social interaction, sense of community, meeting new people, entertainment, information seeking, and a lack of external support in real life.
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Location information disclosure in location-based social network services

TL;DR: Hedonic benefits have stronger impacts on perceived benefits than utilitarian benefits and there is an interaction effect between perceived benefits and privacy risks, and utilitarian benefits are more influential for males (females) than for females (males) when formulating overall benefit perceptions.
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Applying uses and gratifications theory and social influence processes to understand students' pervasive adoption of social networking sites: Perspectives from the Americas

TL;DR: The SI process of internalization and identification, as well as UGT categories of self-discovery, entertainment value, social enhancement, and the need to maintain interpersonal connectivity through the construct of behavioral intentions, were found to have positive impacts on students' pervasive adoption of SNSs.
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IT-enabled knowledge ambidexterity and innovation performance in small U.S. firms: The moderator role of social media capability

TL;DR: This study examines the impact of information technology (IT)-enabled knowledge ambidexterity on innovation performance, and the potential moderator role of social media capability on a sample composed of 100 small U.S. firms.
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Understanding mobile SNS continuance usage in China from the perspectives of social influence and privacy concern

TL;DR: The results suggest that service providers should address the issues of social influence and privacy concern to encourage mobile SNS continuance usage.
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TL;DR: This article seeks to make theorists and researchers aware of the importance of not using the terms moderator and mediator interchangeably by carefully elaborating the many ways in which moderators and mediators differ, and delineates the conceptual and strategic implications of making use of such distinctions with regard to a wide range of phenomena.
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Common method biases in behavioral research: a critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

TL;DR: The extent to which method biases influence behavioral research results is examined, potential sources of method biases are identified, the cognitive processes through which method bias influence responses to measures are discussed, the many different procedural and statistical techniques that can be used to control method biases is evaluated, and recommendations for how to select appropriate procedural and Statistical remedies are provided.
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The Evolution of Cooperation

TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game was developed for cooperation in organisms, and the results of a computer tournament showed how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

TL;DR: This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright and which are likely to be copyrighted.
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