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“Shared Online, Made People Envious, Felt Good”: Motivations to Share Non-Media Types of Content Online

“Shared Online, Made People Envious, Felt Good”: Motivations to Share Non-Media Types of Content Online
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Author(s): Jarno Ojala (Vincit, Finland), Anton Fedosov (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Switzerland), Thomas Olsson (Tampere University, Finland), Kaisa Väänänen (Tampere University, Finland)and Marc Langheinrich (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
Copyright: 2024
Volume: 16
Issue: 1
Pages: 19
Source title: International Journal of Social Media and Online Communities (IJSMOC)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Rohit Rampal (State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/IJSMOC.341587

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Abstract

An online survey of 200 participants was conducted on the experiences of sharing material and immaterial artifacts, focusing on interaction with non-media content types. The survey included six categories of sharing: music preferences, travel plans, sports activities, apartments and vehicles, virtual items in online games, and dietary preferences. The study identified factors that motivate participation in content-mediated interaction: discovery, curating self, connectedness, collaboration, enjoyment, and instrumental motivations, as a set of six motivating factors driving contemporary sharing practices. The authors consolidated findings from earlier work on motivations to share personal content, validating the set of motivating factors with the six selected non-media types of content. The results suggest that both extrinsic and intrinsic motivations affect content sharing practices. Furthermore, motivating factors were mapped to the reported positive and negative experiences, in order to understand their relation and to discuss their capacity to guide user experience design.

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