Why They Become Addicted: Relationship between Microblogging Usage and Addiction

Li, Qian; Guo, Xunhua; Sun, Caihong

doi:10.1109/hicss.2013.610

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“…various operations) or use types (i.e. the different needs being met) (Li et al, 2013). With regard to addiction tendency, most studies have tended to focus on use types rather than activities.…”

Section: Microblogging Usesmentioning

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Investigating microblogging addiction tendency through the lens of uses and gratifications theory

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Bai

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Purpose Considering the popularity and addictive attributes of microblogging, the purpose of this paper is to explore the key drivers of the microblogging addiction tendency, and to investigate the causal relationship between microblogging usage and addiction tendency through the lens of the uses and gratifications (U&G) theory. Design/methodology/approach By extending the U&G theory to accommodate the negative consequences of gratification, a research model that explains the relationships among microblogging use, gratification and addiction tendency was developed and empirically examined based on the data collected from 520 microblogging users in China. Findings The results showed that different types of microblogging use lead to different categories of gratification to different extents, while different categories of gratification play different roles in determining the level of addiction tendency. Specifically, the effect of content gratification on addiction is marginal, while social gratification has significant effects on all dimensions of addiction tendency. Originality/value The present study has both theoretical and practical implications. From a theoretical perspective, unlike many previous studies applied the U&G theory to explore the positive outcomes of media uses, this paper extends the U&G by including addiction tendency as a negative psychological outcome of U&G., resulting a research framework (use-gratification-addiction framework). Meanwhile, this paper contributes to the extending literature by examining the constructs of U&G at a granular level and investigated the causal relationship between “uses” and “gratifications.”

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Section: Microblogging Usesmentioning

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“…Even if they cannot get more gratification, they fail to turn their attention away from Weibo. Li et al (2013) found that Weibo users’ motivation for social communication has a greater impact on Weibo addiction than information sharing motivation. Hong et al (2014) found that a depressive personality and Facebook use can significantly predict Facebook addiction.…”

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“…Kuss and Griffiths (2011) noticed early the problem of online social network addiction, pointing out that the negative consequences related to online social network use include the reduction of community participation in real society, the decline of academic performance, the emergence of relationship problems and so on. Li et al (2013) initially explored the addiction problem of microblog users in mainland China, drawing on the scale used by Davis et al (2002) to study “problematic internet use.” Weibo addiction is considered to be a multidimensional concept, including lower impulse control, loneliness or depression, social comfort and distraction, where the “distraction” sub-dimension has the lowest level of interpretation. Balakrishnan and Shamim (2013) noted the Facebook addictive behavior of Malaysian college students and found the four main symptoms: salience, loss of control, withdrawal, and relapse and reinstatement.…”

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How does Weibo keep users hooked? A Weibo addictive behavior study based on netnography

Liu

Zhou

2019

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Purpose With the rapid development of social media in the past few years, some dark aspects of usage have appeared, e.g., Weibo addiction. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to address the question of how Weibo keeps users hooked. Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes the netnography method to explore the symptoms of Weibo addiction and how it is formed. Findings First, some Weibo users have typical symptoms of addictive behavior, such as withdrawal, loss of control and general living problems; second, narcissism plays an important role in the process of Weibo addiction and has a stronger effect on content generation than content consumption; third, some users use Weibo as a means to alleviate anxiety, but they can then become more anxious owing to addiction; and fourth, the effect of comments has two sides – on the one hand, comments are one kind of feedback to posts, satisfying posters’ social needs, while on the other hand, a storytelling system consists of one post and its comments, upon which some Weibo users become more dependent. Research limitations/implications This research is only a preliminary, exploratory study. Therefore, care should be taken when interpreting these findings. Practical implications This study should help social media service providers and users to pay attention to the risk of social media addiction. Social media service providers should take social responsibility, design more user-oriented guidelines for marketing ethics and launch more responsible marketing activities. Users should enhance self-control and better balance social media use and offline real life. Originality/value Netnography has not been widely used as an addictive behavior research technique. This study is further bolstered because it has also noticed the difference of addiction mechanisms between addictive micro-bloggers and their followers.

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Review of Persuasive User Interface as Strategy for Technology Addiction in Virtual Environments

Dewi

Lee

2022

2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)

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Why They Become Addicted: Relationship between Microblogging Usage and Addiction

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Investigating microblogging addiction tendency through the lens of uses and gratifications theory

Investigating microblogging addiction tendency through the lens of uses and gratifications theory

How does Weibo keep users hooked? A Weibo addictive behavior study based on netnography

Review of Persuasive User Interface as Strategy for Technology Addiction in Virtual Environments

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