Indagator: Investigating perceived gratifications of an application that blends mobile content sharing with gameplay

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1244-1257

  Lee, Chei Sian ^a   Goh, Dion Hoe Lian ^a   Chua, Alton Y K ^a   Ang, Rebecca P ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS CONTENT; CONTENT SHARING; DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GRADUATE STUDENTS; INFORMATION DISCOVERY; INFORMATION QUALITY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES; MOBILE CONTENT; MOBILE GAMING; MOBILE SHARING; MULTIPLAYERS; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; PERVASIVE GAMING; USES AND GRATIFICATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 77952990335     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21305     Document Type: Article

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