Decentralizing Social Media: An Examination of Blockchain-based Social Media Adoption and Use based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)
Interviews with 31 early adopters of blockchain-based social media show adoption is driven by social influence, financial incentives, and content-moderation avoidance, validating and extending the UTAUT model with two new factors.
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10.1145/3603163.3609030
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Decentralizing Social Media: An Examination of Blockchain-based Social Media Adoption and Use based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)
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Anatoliy Gruzd, Alyssa Saiphoo, Philip Mai
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Interviews with 31 early adopters of blockchain-based social media show adoption is driven by social influence, financial incentives, and content-moderation avoidance, validating and extending the UTAUT model with two new factors.
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2023-09-04
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HT '23: 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Rome, Italy, September 4-8, 2023
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Anatoliy Gruzd, Alyssa Saiphoo, and Philip Mai (Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
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2023-09-04