... may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Individual Internet addiction Technology adoption Interview Consumer behaviour Social media End users Interpretivist research Social media (SM) has become a defining media form, with high consumption levels...

...: the components of RAT. Within each section, we also report the results on the phenomenological and inductive findings that emerged from the analysis. Individual Qualitative method Socio-technical theory Security Empirical study Interpretivist research Interview Social constructivism...

.../methodology/approach The author used a scenario-based approach to test the hypotheses and surveyed 262 users who actively stream movies and TV shows. Findings By drawing on the appraisal tendency framework, the author finds that among individuals experiencing fear due to the copyright enforcement policy...

... challenges the concept of a unified ITOC, suggesting that ITOC is pluralistic. It also theorizes about interactions between ITOC, individual motivation and values and national culture. Practical implications Management needs to be cognizant of the fact that IT occupational culture is not homogeneous...

... shows that for those individuals who play mobile social games to pass the time, game developers should stress game innovativeness and ease of use to make the time pass more enjoyably. However, for those who play mobile social games to seek achievements, game developers should prioritize setting...

...) Individual Hypothesis testing Cognitive theories Internet users going about daily online activities are experiencing excessive programmatic advertising in the form of real-time bidding (RTB). RTB began in 2009, and it is a process in which advertisers bid on advertisement slots being sold by web...

... should develop theories on national information culture to bridge the theoretical gaps found in explaining the differences in individuals’ IT perceptions and behaviors across cultures. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the objectives of this study, two quantitative studies were conducted...

...-political activities, such as general discussion on politics, consumption of political news through newspapers, TV or internet and debating in local community affairs. Individual Text mining Twitter Social media Online political participation Teorell et al.’s (2007) framework Online...

.... More specifically, privacy invasion experiences are negatively associated with the perceived effectiveness of institutional privacy assurances. Research limitations/implications Privacy concerns are conceptualized as general concerns that reflect an individual’s worry about the possible loss...

... an individual’s thinking and behavior concerning online password use. Second, this research offers empirical evidence that a high construal level improves users’ password use, a desirable feature for improved security. Third, this research contributes to the literature on how to apply nudging to influence human...

... 22 02 2018 07 01 2019 04 03 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only TL has progressively evolved as one of the critical elements which improve individual performance. This idea has been backed by quite a few research...

...). If the motivations are fulfilled (i.e. gratifications), people will use the new media more often, leading to an increase in users’ continuance intentions (Weibull, 1985). Survey Usability Computer games Survey data Individual RQ2. How these effects differ across players’ demographics...