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Like, Share, Recommend: Smartphones as a Self-Broadcast and Self-Promotion Medium of College Students

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In this study, the authors examine the use of smart phones for self-broadcasting among college students based on motivation and network externalities theories. The authors propose that smartphones have changed telephones from a point-to-point interpersonal medium to a broadcast medium for individuals to disseminate information to their networks through the use of social media. The authors hypothesized that the more friends and followers a student has on Facebook and Twitter respectively, the more likely the student will use friends and followers as self-broadcasting mediums from their smartphones. The hypothesis was supported based on survey data collected at a public university. The study also discusses the social implications of using smartphones as a broadcast and self-promotion medium.

Publication Date

2013

Publication Title

International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4018/ijthi.2013100102

Start Page No.

20

End Page No.

40

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