Scan and click: The uses and gratifications of social recommendation systems

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Highlights：

• Social recommendation systems offer ways to scan collective opinions and express opinions.

• Expression, information, socialization, and entertainment were motives for system.

• Internet use had no significant relationships with either motives or system uses.

• Social media uses were closely related with both motives and actual uses.

摘要

•Social recommendation systems offer ways to scan collective opinions and express opinions.•Expression, information, socialization, and entertainment were motives for system.•Internet use had no significant relationships with either motives or system uses.•Social media uses were closely related with both motives and actual uses.

论文关键词：Online survey,Uses and gratification,Opinion expression,Social media use,Internet use,Social recommendation system

论文评审过程：Available online 14 February 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.028