scholarly journals AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION OF THE USES AND GRATIFICATIONS OF APPS FOR STUDENT LEARNING

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara Peters ◽  
Charles Bodkin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Smartphone Apps ◽  
Uses And Gratifications Theory ◽  
Exploratory Investigation

Cell phone usage, particularly app usage, is pervasive among today’s college students. Utilizing the uses and gratifications theory, the current study explores students’ perceptions of the utility of smartphone apps in an educational context. The findings highlight the various types of apps that students use for academic purposes, which apps they perceive to be most important to their success in the classroom, and the apparent usefulness of these apps in both individual and group contexts. Implications of the study for both faculty and students are discussed.

scholarly journals "Hands Up, Don't Shoot": College Students, Social Media and the #BLACKLIVESMATTER Movement

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Hall ◽  
Sam Baucham ◽  
Tim Harris
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Uses And Gratifications Theory ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Share Information

This study focused on how college students are using social media in the #Blacklivesmatter movement. There have been several socially galvanizing events surrounding the #Blacklivesmatter movement that have led to many people to turn to social media to voice their opinions, share information and debate different ideas. This study specifically focused on college student’s involvement on social media surrounding these events. The data suggests that Facebook was overwhelmingly the main choice for participants to gather information about this movement. While college students are gathering information about the #Blacklivesmatter movement on social media, the data suggests that participants rarely posted or shared information about the movement on their personal social media platforms. The study addressed how the Uses and Gratifications theory helps explain why people may or may not use social media for the purpose of news/information gathering.

Applying uses and gratifications theory to students’ LinkedIn usage

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bela Florenthal
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Uses And Gratifications Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Professional Network ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Upper Level

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore what motivates college students to use LinkedIn and what inhibits them from fully adopting it. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative approach applying a “uses and gratifications” framework was used to identify the motives of and barriers faced by college students with respect to the LinkedIn usage. The study includes data collected from 30 upper-level, undergraduate business students. Findings – Four uses and gratifications categories emerged explaining why college students would be willing to use LinkedIn. Three categories – interpersonal communication, online identity and information – are similar to those identified for using social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Career development was found to be a category gratifying only LinkedIn users. Barriers to LinkedIn adoption included students’ ignorance of the network and the erroneous perception that a presence on LinkedIn should be initiated and/or developed only after graduation. Originality/value – College students’ behavior on social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace, was extensively researched employing the uses and gratifications theory. LinkedIn has recently reached about 200 million users, of which about 30 million are college students and recent graduates. Still, students’ motives, usage patterns and barriers associated with LinkedIn have not been well-documented, which creates a gap that this study attempts to address. The aim is to shed light on what motivates students to use a professional network as opposed to using social networks and what key barriers might prevent college students from fully capitalizing on LinkedIn’s features.

Uses and Gratifications of MP3 Players by College Students: Are iPods More Popular than Radio?

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Ferguson ◽  
Clark F. Greer ◽  
Michael E. Reardon
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Mp3 Players

The effects of shyness and loneliness on cell phone dependence in college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yan Chen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Loneliness Scale ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

I explored the relationships among shyness, loneliness, and cell phone dependence (CPD) in college students, with a special focus on the mediating effect of loneliness in the relationship between shyness and CPD. Participants were 593 students recruited from a college in Henan, China, and they completed the Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, the UCLA Loneliness Scale–Short Form, and the Mobile Phone Addiction Index. The results show that shyness was significantly correlated with both loneliness and CPD, and that loneliness partially mediated the effect of shyness on CPD. These findings shed light on how shyness predicts CPD and have implications for preventing CPD in college students.

scholarly journals Impacts of Gratifications on Consumers’ Emotions and Continuance Use Intention: An Empirical Study of Weibo in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ives Gogan ◽  
Ziqiong Zhang ◽  
Elizabeth Matemba
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Continuance Intention ◽  
Uses And Gratifications Theory ◽  
Emotional Commitment ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Individual Use

Recently, several studies on information systems have applied the Uses and Gratifications theory to investigate individual use of social media, and have reported the role of different gratifications in predicting users’ behaviors. However, no attention was given to the influence of these gratifications on users’ emotional states (satisfaction and emotional commitment). To address this research gap, the current study integrates the Uses and Gratifications theory and the Stimulus-Organism-Response theory to provide a theoretical background for the impacts of gratification on consumers’ emotional states and continuance use intention. The study has proposed a theoretical model that was tested on data collected from 252 Sina Weibo users in China. The results revealed that social gratification is the most important factor influencing users’ satisfaction and emotional commitment. In addition, we report the roles that user satisfaction and emotional state provide in predicting users’ continuance intention. The theoretical and practical implications of the proposed theory are also discussed.

scholarly journals How and why people are impolite in danmu?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiayi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Group Interview ◽  
Uses And Gratifications Theory ◽  
Video Sharing

Abstract This study explores how and why people are impolite in danmu. Danmu refers to anonymous comments overlaid on videos uploaded to video-sharing sites. Although there is wide recognition that impoliteness prevails in danmu, the questions of how and why people are impolite in this context have rarely been investigated. This study addresses this lacuna of research. Using both an analysis of comments identified as impolite by participants and an analysis of focus group interview data, this research identified seven impoliteness strategies, covering both conventionalised formulae and implicational impoliteness. By applying uses and gratifications theory, this study identified five uses and gratifications for performing impoliteness in danmu: social interaction, entertainment, relaxation, expression of (usually differing) opinions and finding connections. The dialectic of resonance and opposition that emerged from the data helped explain why impolite comments tended not to be perceived as inappropriate in danmu. Thus, this study contributes to the emerging research on impoliteness in social media.

The Effects of Cell Phone Use and Emotion-regulation Style on College Students' Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungyeon Lee ◽  
Myeong W. Kim ◽  
Ian M. McDonough ◽  
Jessica S. Mendoza ◽  
Min Sung Kim
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Cell Phone Use

The Mathematical Culture of Ojibwe Students – An Ethnographic Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-109
Author(s):  
Porter Coggins
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Tribal College ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mathematical Culture ◽  
Academic Background ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Innate Capacity

Human beings have an innate capacity to communicate, count, detect patterns, locate, and create. With these capacities we invent, design, play, and explain. Regardless of academic background, we also have the innate capacity to use mathematics in meaningful ways. However, in spite of this innate capacity, there is a large disconnect between innate function and success in academic mathematics. Our research is based on interviews of 14 Ojibwe-identifying tribal college students. The instrument was constructed based on Bishop’s (1988) set of six universals or activities people have always done. We present the development of the instrument, interview process, and initial findings. Findings include common ethnomathematical threads found among the interviewed students. Our goal is to use this research to improve ourpreK-12 professional education teacher program and positively impact Ojibwe student learning.

College Students’ Perceptions of Cell Phone Integration in Language Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Guoqiang Cui ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Shuyan Wang ◽  
Zhenhuan Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Foreign Language Study ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Language Study

Cell phone integration in education has been widely discussed and explored, especially in the field of foreign language study. Compared with other countries, cell phone educational integration in China is in its infancy. This article examined Chinese college students’ perceptions of cell phone usage in three aspects: interaction, course construction, and flexibility. Though students generally demonstrated great interest for the cell phone integration in English language study, no significant difference was found between students’ characteristics and perceptions of interaction, course construction, and flexibility in their use of cell phones. However, researchers did find that course constructions are a significant predictor of students’ senses of course flexibility issues. This study also found that many students hold neutral attitudes towards the integration of cell phones, therefore initial stage of cell phone usage is of great importance in order to attract and motivate more students.

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