Antecedents of sense of virtual community: An empirical study of QQ group in Chinese college students

2009 1st International Conference on Information Science and Engineering, ICISE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2559-2562

  Xu, Changjiang ^a   Liu, Yingchun ^a   Zhong, Chenyin ^a   Luo, Meina ^a   Tian, Xuehong ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Exchanging support; Perceived enjoyment; QQ group; Sense of virtual community; Technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE STUDENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GROUP USERS; INSTANT MESSAGING; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SENSE OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

EXPOSURE CONTROLS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; STUDENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77952758874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICISE.2009.320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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