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Article: Individual motivations and demographic differences in social virtual world uses: An exploratory investigation in Second Life

TitleIndividual motivations and demographic differences in social virtual world uses: An exploratory investigation in Second Life
Authors
KeywordsSocial virtual world
Social value
Functional value
Experiential value
Individual differences
Issue Date2011
Citation
International Journal of Information Management, 2011, v. 31, n. 3, p. 261-271 How to Cite?
AbstractEmerging social virtual worlds (SVWs) are attracting attention from researchers and practitioners for the potential benefits they offer to many real-life domains such as business and education. The values of SVWs cannot be realized without a sufficient number of users; however, little research has been conducted to investigate the factors attracting people to use SVWs. The purpose of this paper is to explore individual motivations and differences in SVW uses based on the uses and gratifications paradigm and on the literature of Internet uses. Content analysis is adopted to code and categorize the responses from 188 users in Second Life (SL), one of the most popular SVWs. Results show that people use SL because of three types of motivations: functional, experiential, and social. Comparative analysis by gender, age, education, and experience using Chi-square tests suggests that (1) female users are more inclined to shopping, researching, and exploring within SL, whereas male users are more concerned with using SL for making money; (2) younger users are more likely to use SL for entertainment, while older users are more likely to use SL for creating and education; (3) users with higher education exert significantly more effort with in-world research and education than those who with lower levels of education; and (4) relative to their counterparts, experienced users are more aware of the values of SL for creating, education, and commerce. No significant inter-group difference of any experiential motivation has been found regarding education and experience. In addition, no significant individual difference has been found regarding social motivations. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/307111
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dc.contributor.authorZhou, Zhongyun-
dc.contributor.authorJin, Xiao Ling-
dc.contributor.authorVogel, Douglas R.-
dc.contributor.authorFang, Yulin-
dc.contributor.authorChen, Xiaojian-
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-03T06:21:57Z-
dc.date.available2021-11-03T06:21:57Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Information Management, 2011, v. 31, n. 3, p. 261-271-
dc.identifier.issn0268-4012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/307111-
dc.description.abstractEmerging social virtual worlds (SVWs) are attracting attention from researchers and practitioners for the potential benefits they offer to many real-life domains such as business and education. The values of SVWs cannot be realized without a sufficient number of users; however, little research has been conducted to investigate the factors attracting people to use SVWs. The purpose of this paper is to explore individual motivations and differences in SVW uses based on the uses and gratifications paradigm and on the literature of Internet uses. Content analysis is adopted to code and categorize the responses from 188 users in Second Life (SL), one of the most popular SVWs. Results show that people use SL because of three types of motivations: functional, experiential, and social. Comparative analysis by gender, age, education, and experience using Chi-square tests suggests that (1) female users are more inclined to shopping, researching, and exploring within SL, whereas male users are more concerned with using SL for making money; (2) younger users are more likely to use SL for entertainment, while older users are more likely to use SL for creating and education; (3) users with higher education exert significantly more effort with in-world research and education than those who with lower levels of education; and (4) relative to their counterparts, experienced users are more aware of the values of SL for creating, education, and commerce. No significant inter-group difference of any experiential motivation has been found regarding education and experience. In addition, no significant individual difference has been found regarding social motivations. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Information Management-
dc.subjectSocial virtual world-
dc.subjectSocial value-
dc.subjectFunctional value-
dc.subjectExperiential value-
dc.subjectIndividual differences-
dc.titleIndividual motivations and demographic differences in social virtual world uses: An exploratory investigation in Second Life-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2010.07.007-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-79953868841-
dc.identifier.volume31-
dc.identifier.issue3-
dc.identifier.spage261-
dc.identifier.epage271-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000290836000010-

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