Can social role theory explain gender differences in Facebook usage?

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 690-699

  Lin, Xiaolin ^a   Li, Yibai ^a   Califf, Christopher B ^a   Featherman, Mauricio ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUANCE INTENTIONS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT; PERCEIVED RISK; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL ROLES;

PROFITABILITY; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84875480950     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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