• DocumentCode
    2766271
  • Title

    Follow me: An analysis of self-traits, motivation, microblog usage and attractiveness of one´s microblog

  • Author

    Yu, Yinan ; Zhu, Yan

  • Author_Institution
    Manage. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    2-4 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    148
  • Lastpage
    153
  • Abstract
    Microblog has become an amazing approach to show someone´s influence for individuals and manage public relationship for organizations. It is an important issue that how to attract huge numbers of fans to enhance influence. This article tried to investigate this topic from the viewpoint of behavioral research by building up a concept model among self-traits, motivation, microblog usage and numbers of fans. The results show that cognitive absorption has a significant effect on the number of fans.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web sites; behavioral research; cognitive absorption; microblog usage; motivation analysis; public relationship; self-trait analysis; Absorption; Cognition; Educational institutions; Fans; Internet; Media; Social network services; SNS; information system usage; microblog; motivation; number of fans; social media;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2012 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-2024-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSSSM.2012.6252210
  • Filename
    6252210