Understanding the facilitators and inhibitors of individuals' social network site usage

Online Information Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 85-101

  Huang, Hsin Yi ^a   Chen, Po Lin ^a   Kuo, Yu Chen ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Continuance intention; Media system dependency theory; Privacy concerns; Social presence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

CONTINUANCE INTENTIONS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; MEDIA SYSTEMS; NOCV1; PRIVACY CONCERNS; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE (SNS); SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIAL PRESENCE; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIVACY; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; STRUCTURAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 85010917500     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/OIR-10-2015-0319     Document Type: Article

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