Users' perceptions of blog functions: educational vs personal use

Q Social Sciences

Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems Pub Date : 2014-08-14 DOI:10.1108/PROG-10-2012-0058

Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Wei-Jane Lin, Tzu-Yi Lu

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Purpose – This paper aims to understand how users' perceptions of the different functions of blogs vary in educational use and personal use, and further to explore whether experience with blogs has an influence on differences in perceptions of blog functions. Design/methodology/approach – To empirically determine whether the blog functions were suitable for educational and personal use, a blog system with numerous functions was constructed for users to evaluate. In total, 48 college students were recruited to participate in the study. The participants navigated this system and then filled in a questionnaire to give their opinions on the functions of both educational blogs and personal blogs. Findings – The findings of this study indicate that of the 26 blog functions, perceptions of 20 of the functions differed significantly between educational and personal use. Moreover, the results showed that only two blog functions, backup and traffic source, were influenced by both blog experience and blog usage. Ori...

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用户对博客功能的看法:教育用途与个人用途

目的-本文旨在了解用户在教育使用和个人使用中对博客不同功能的感知是如何变化的，并进一步探讨使用博客的经历是否对博客功能感知的差异产生影响。设计/方法论/方法-为了实证地确定博客功能是否适合教育和个人使用，构建了一个具有众多功能的博客系统供用户评估。总共有48名大学生被招募来参与这项研究。参与者浏览了这个系统，然后填写了一份问卷，给出了他们对教育博客和个人博客功能的看法。研究结果-本研究的结果表明，在26个博客功能中，20个功能的认知在教育和个人使用之间存在显著差异。此外，研究结果表明，只有备份和流量源两种博客功能同时受到博客体验和博客使用的影响。让……

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来源期刊

Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems 工程技术-计算机：信息系统

CiteScore

1.30

自引率

0.00%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： ■Automation of library and information services ■Storage and retrieval of all forms of electronic information ■Delivery of information to end users ■Database design and management ■Techniques for storing and distributing information ■Networking and communications technology ■The Internet ■User interface design ■Procurement of systems ■User training and support ■System evaluation