Abstract
Why would people use Short Message Service (SMS) to say something they would not say in person? There is a trend that SMS is becoming more and more popular because it facilitates more extended modes of communications. Using technology acceptance model, we hypothesize the attitude of SMS would be influenced by its perceived effectiveness for communications, perceived ease of use, and subjective norm. Besides the special aspects of communications, conflict avoidance and privacy protection will enforce the impact of perceived effectiveness of SMS for communication. We investigated 953 SMS users and the results support most of our hypotheses. Furthermore, our analyses also show there are differences between females and males on the influence mechanism behind their attitude towards SMS.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 250-270 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2011 |
Keywords
- Conflict management
- Interpersonal communications
- Privacy protection
- Short messaging service
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Networks and Communications