Antecedents of social presence and gratification of social connection needs in SNS: A study of Twitter users and their mobile and non-mobile usage

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Highlights：

• We posit that users are drawn to Twitter to fulfill their social connection needs.

• The sense of social presence SNS engender plays a significant role in fulfilling their users’ social connection needs.

• We also investigate how certain characteristics of SNS in Twitter operate differently on mobile and non-mobile users.

• The linkage between immediacy-related characteristics and social presence is stronger among mobile users than desktop users.

• The linkage between immediacy-related characteristics and social presence is weaker among mobile users than desktop users.

摘要

•We posit that users are drawn to Twitter to fulfill their social connection needs.•The sense of social presence SNS engender plays a significant role in fulfilling their users’ social connection needs.•We also investigate how certain characteristics of SNS in Twitter operate differently on mobile and non-mobile users.•The linkage between immediacy-related characteristics and social presence is stronger among mobile users than desktop users.•The linkage between immediacy-related characteristics and social presence is weaker among mobile users than desktop users.

论文关键词：Mobile SNS,Intimacy,Immediacy,Social presence,Gratification of social connection need

论文评审过程：Received 11 December 2013, Revised 9 April 2015, Accepted 9 April 2015, Available online 13 May 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2015.04.004