Digital natives in social virtual worlds: A multi-method study of gratifications and social influences in Habbo Hotel
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Highlights：
• Digital natives are under-investigated in the virtual world and Information Systems research.
• Teenagers’ continuous social virtual world use is predominantly hedonically motivated.
• Virtual world both extends existing social interactions and helps to form new ones.
• Digital natives naturally cross the boundary between offline life and virtual space.
摘要
•Digital natives are under-investigated in the virtual world and Information Systems research.•Teenagers’ continuous social virtual world use is predominantly hedonically motivated.•Virtual world both extends existing social interactions and helps to form new ones.•Digital natives naturally cross the boundary between offline life and virtual space.
论文关键词：Digital natives,Continuance,Uses and gratifications,Teenagers,Multi-method
论文评审过程：Available online 20 January 2014.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2013.12.010
