Beyond Adoption Intention: Online Communities and Member Motivation to Contribute Longitudinally

Wang, Xuequn; Clay, Paul

doi:10.1080/10919392.2012.696928

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“…When individuals perceive that they are capable of carrying out an activity, they are motivated to involve themselves in the activity (Montero, 2004). In addition, perceived competence is found to make users feel that their engagements are important in order to realise the community value of being a resourceful place (Wang & Clay, 2012). For example, users would be willing to rate online content when they perceive their ratings have an effect on others' choices about using online content (Hong & Park, 2011).…”

Section: Hypotheses and The Research Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding user motivation for evaluating online content: a self-determination theory perspective

Zhang

Wang

Lin

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Behaviour & Information Technology

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Abstract:In a digital society, people have access to all kinds of electronic information as online users. They have also contributed various content for exchanging ideas in the online community, which has not only extended the traditional knowledge sharing channels, but has also led to concerns about content quality and reliability. The literature suggests that user involvement in collaboratively evaluating the quality of online content for an online community is likely to be an effective means to ease these concerns. However, the understanding of users' intention to be willing to take part in evaluating online content is still limited. Based on self-determination theory, this study proposes a research model to understand the extrinsic motivation of the user intention. The research model was tested using data collected from 303 participants who were recruited from online communities. The results show that three types of extrinsic motivation, namely, identified motivation, introjected motivation and external motivation, play important role in user intention of collaboratively evaluating online content. In addition, the research findings suggest that user satisfaction of the three basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness, influence different types of extrinsic motivation.

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Section: Hypotheses and The Research Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding user motivation for evaluating online content: a self-determination theory perspective

Zhang

Wang

Lin

et al. 2014

Behaviour & Information Technology

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“…Scholars have also focused on persuasive strategies for online health community participation and its psychological outcomes (Kim & Sundar, 2014) or motivations for joining such health communities associated with posting support (socio-emotional support motivations) or receiving support (informational motivations) (Welbourne, Blanchard, & Wadsworth, 2013). Personality traits and how they affect knowledge sharing in online communities (Jadin, Gnambs, & Batinic, 2013) as well as extrinsic/intrinsic rewards in community context (Wang & Clay, 2012) are also highlighted. Scholars believe that factors like intrinsic motivations, shared goals, social trust and also social capital can drive users' freely innovation-conducive knowledge sharing in such online communities (Hau & Kim, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

A hermeneutic phenomenological study of online community participation

Galehbakhtiari

pouryasouri

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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a b s t r a c tOnline communities are increasingly playing a major role in the internet market. They have become an integrated part of internet users' interests and achievements.Understanding the factors which encourage individuals to participate in such communities, will serve as the principal guideline for the founders in assisting them to obtain requisite approvals to develop their business goals, plans and procedures.This paper uses a mixed methodology in order to identify the strongest motivational paths toward online community participation. A Hermeneutic Phenomenological approach has been applied in order to illustrate users' lived experience and extract the motivations from deep semi-structured interviews with interdisciplinary experts in the fields of psychology, consumer behavior, Information technology and e-commerce.In this paper, the application of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs), as an innovative approach in modeling consumer motivations for online community participation has been discussed. Although motivations have been widely studied over the past few years, no one has focused on the causal relations between them. This study gives a comprehensive understanding of causal relations -to determine whether changes in one variable result in changes in another -and their strengths as well as strongest paths toward online community participation which helps decision-makers reach the desirable level of user's participation in online communities.

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“…User interactions with IS are interpersonal in nature and users react to IS in a similar way as interacting in social situations (Marakas et al, 2000). Analogous with human interactions, previous interactions and beliefs about an IS along with the outcomes formed as a result of previous interactions influence successive interactions and the overall beliefs a user has about an IS and their association with it (Al-Natour and Benbasat, 2009;Wang and Clay, 2010). User-IS interactions also regulate users' attitude toward the interaction and the system, and consequently the quality of the relationship to be formed (Marakas et al, 2000;Chen et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A premise of the technology adoption literature is that users adopt technologies to aid task completion, which is influenced by technology functions, features, and/or information. Early technology adoption models (TAM) are not appropriate for hedonic systems like SCAs because constructs like usefulness become irrelevant when system usage is not primarily task based (Wang and Clay, 2010). Subsequent TAM studies employed hedonic beliefs such as perceived playfulness, percieved enjoyment, and feelings to overcome this shortcoming (Kim et al, 2007;Thong et al, 2006;van der Heijden, 2004).…”

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Why do people use social computing? An experiential perspective

Tehone

Ciganek

2015

Internet Research

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework to describe the continual usage of social computing systems from an experiential perspective. Design/methodology/approach -A conceptual framework is developed using theories formulated from a variety of disciplines including information system (IS) continuance, relationship formation, human-computer interaction, and motivation theory. Findings -The conceptual framework encompasses the relationship and experiential perspective of user-computer interactions. The framework also identifies factors that contribute to the continual usage of social computing by users and how these factors are related with system features.Research limitations/implications -This study does not include an empirical analysis to validate the conceptual framework proposed in this study. Future research is encouraged to examine the ten propositions from the proposed conceptual framework. Practical implications -The conceptual framework takes a different approach which is well suited for examining the continual usage of social computing applications (SCAs). Originality/value -Previous research investigating factors that contribute to the continual usage of social computing often examined using static and utilitarian-based models. The conceptual framework in this study provides a different perspective for explaining why people use SCAs.

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Beyond Adoption Intention: Online Communities and Member Motivation to Contribute Longitudinally

Cited by 27 publications

References 72 publications

Understanding user motivation for evaluating online content: a self-determination theory perspective

Understanding user motivation for evaluating online content: a self-determination theory perspective

A hermeneutic phenomenological study of online community participation

Why do people use social computing? An experiential perspective

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