Social virtual world continuance among teens: Uncovering the moderating role of perceived aggregate network exposure

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 536-547

  Mäntymäki, Matti ^a   Islam, A K M Najmul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

IS continuance; Network effect; Network externalities; Social virtual worlds; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

IS CONTINUANCE; NETWORK EFFECTS; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; SOCIAL VIRTUAL WORLDS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84921324990     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2013.872190     Document Type: Article

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