Decomposing perceived playfulness: A contextual examination of two social networking sites

Information and Management

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 698-716

  Hung, Shin Yuan ^a   Tsai, Jacob Chia An ^b   Chou, Shin Tzu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Context specific model; Perceived playfulness; Social networking sites; User acceptance

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONTEXT SENSITIVE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PERCEIVED PLAYFULNESS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (SNSS); SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; USER ACCEPTANCE; USER'S ATTITUDES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84961770643     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2016.02.005     Document Type: Article

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