{"title":"Barriers to playing digital games: Why do some people choose not to play digital games?","authors":"Seungyeon Ha, Seongcheol Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the global gaming industry has become a significant economic force, surpassing the film and music industries in market size, it has not achieved the same level of universality as its entertainment counterparts. Previous literature has mainly focused on gaming motivation, addiction, and regulation, ignoring non-game players and their barriers. Therefore, this study explores why people are hesitant to play digital games and investigates the factors that contribute to this resistance. The current study incorporates <span>Crawford and Godbey’s (1987)</span> leisure barriers into Innovation Resistance Theory. Of the seven barriers identified, this study categorizes four as intrapersonal, two as interpersonal, and one as a structural barrier. Further, it explores the differences between non-game players by categorizing them into those without any digital gaming experience (NG-N) and those with previous digital gaming experience (NG-F). The findings of this study suggest that perceived incompetence and negative social perception are the main barriers to playing digital games. As for the group analysis, there is a statistically significant difference between NG-N and NG-F players. These results provide valuable insights for both gaming industry, and regulatory bodies to create a better environment for the gaming ecosystem and expand its potential user base.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 102161"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141604950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual information and appearance: The impact of visual attributes of user-generated photos on review helpfulness","authors":"Lijuan Luo , Ling Liu , Yujie Zheng , Jing Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Images have become integral to consumers’ sharing of consumption experiences due to their abilities of carrying rich and vivid information. Drawing from the perspective of information theory and the elaboration likelihood model (ELM), this study investigates impacts of visual information and visual appearance of user-generated photos (UGPs) on customers’ perceived review helpfulness. We utilize deep learning techniques to calculate the breadth and depth of photos (visual information), and evaluate the aesthetic value of the photos (visual appearance). By collecting a substantial amount of review, reviewer and restaurant information from the Yelp platform, our results demonstrate that the visual breadth and visual depth of review photos have a significant positive impact on review helpfulness. Notably, reviewer status and review length moderate these effects. These insights offer valuable strategies for both restaurant managers and online restaurant platforms regarding UGP management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102164"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141622486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumer reactions to perceived undisclosed ChatGPT usage in an online review context","authors":"Clinton Amos, Lixuan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While artificial intelligence’s (AI) promise for fake online review detection has been investigated, other questions have emerged with ChatGPT’s introduction, a generative AI platform. This research provides a much-needed investigation into consumer reactions to reviews perceived to be generated by ChatGPT vs. a human. Results from three studies in TripAdvisor hotel review and Yelp restaurant review contexts revealed that consumers rate reviews as less useful, trustworthy, and authentic if they perceived ChatGPT generated them. Further, the findings were robust regardless of review valence and even when participants were informed the reviewer possessed a TripAdvisor Expert badge. These findings’ theoretical and practical implications are discussed, along with limitations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 102163"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141702716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José-Julián Escario , Joel Enrique Espejel Blanco , J. Ignacio Giménez-Nadal , Anna V. Wilkinson
{"title":"Differences in the maximum proportion of spent income devoted to online gambling among adolescents due to conflictual relationships","authors":"José-Julián Escario , Joel Enrique Espejel Blanco , J. Ignacio Giménez-Nadal , Anna V. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyzes a new topic in gambling among adolescents: the association between the amount of available income that is spent weekly and online gambling, and further examines the possible role of conflictual relationships as a moderator of this association. To that end, interval regression analyses are used with a nationally representative sample of Spanish adolescents (n = 38,010; M<sub>age</sub> = 15.69; 51.4 % females). The results indicate that spent income, bullying victimization and poor-quality or conflictual relationships with the mother are positively associated with online gambling. Moreover, the last two predictors moderate the association between spent income and online gambling. The results also indicate that parents and schools have some room to maneuver. Thus, informative campaigns at school integrating parents could reduce online gambling directly and indirectly via the improvement of adolescents’ conflictual relationships. Moreover, special attention should be paid to boys, among whom most online gambling takes place.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102162"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585324000662/pdfft?md5=7178f79e8ed85af3b6d21c85b938116d&pid=1-s2.0-S0736585324000662-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141595898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk , Daniel Conroy-Beam , Bartosz Ujma , Kathryn V. Walter , Zuzanna Zborowska , Agnieszka Sorokowska
{"title":"Disgust in the mating context – choosing the best and the least bad self-presentation option in a date simulation game","authors":"Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk , Daniel Conroy-Beam , Bartosz Ujma , Kathryn V. Walter , Zuzanna Zborowska , Agnieszka Sorokowska","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102159","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In order to achieve interpersonal goals, people manipulate their self-image: they manifest their most favourable traits and avoid exhibiting the most aversive ones. Disgust is one of the most powerful turn-offs in a mating context. Here, we explored which disgust domain −pathogen, sexual, or moral − is considered the most damaging for self-image. We also revisited the importance of various positive traits in a potential partner. The participants (N = 1,017) played a date-simulation game. They chose which one of five positive characteristics, and which one of three disgust norm transgressions they want to manifest. We analysed the influence of one’s biological sex, sexual orientation, and culture on self-presentation during a date.</p><p>Women more often manifested morally disgusting behaviours and artistic abilities than men, while men more often manifested pathogenically disgusting behaviours and kindness. Homosexual orientation predicted lower frequency of admitting to moral disgust transgressions, and higher frequency of exhibiting artistic abilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102159"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585324000637/pdfft?md5=f2e56c188ab48f6eee54d46511e57bf1&pid=1-s2.0-S0736585324000637-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141542483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Weihong Qi , Jinsheng Pan , Hanjia Lyu , Jiebo Luo
{"title":"Excitements and concerns in the post-ChatGPT era: Deciphering public perception of AI through social media analysis","authors":"Weihong Qi , Jinsheng Pan , Hanjia Lyu , Jiebo Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As AI systems become increasingly prevalent in various aspects of daily life, gaining a comprehensive understanding of public perception towards these AI systems has become increasingly essential for several reasons such as ethical considerations, user experience, fear, disinformation, regulation, collaboration, and co-creation. In this study, we investigate how mass social media users perceive the recent rise of AI frameworks such as ChatGPT. We collect a total of 33,912 comments in 388 unique subreddits spanning from November 30, 2022 to June 8, 2023 using a list of AI-related keywords. We employ a combination of thematic and sentiment analysis, using advanced natural language processing techniques. Specifically, we use BERTopic to uncover the major themes regarding AI on Reddit. Our findings indicate that technology-focused subreddits primarily discuss the technical dimensions of AI, while non-technical subreddits more often address societal impacts, such as job displacement concerns. The disparity in focus between subreddits suggests a gap in the public understanding of AI. We leverage GPT-3.5 with zero-shot prompting and LIWC to analyze the sentiment and perception of AI among individual users. Through a comprehensive sentiment and emotion analysis, we discover that tech-centric communities exhibit greater polarization compared to non-tech communities when discussing AI topics. This suggests that individuals with a deeper understanding or familiarity with AI technologies might have more divided opinions, possibly reflecting a mix of optimism about technological advancements and skepticism about potential impacts. This research contributes to our broader understanding of public opinion surrounding artificial intelligence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102158"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141438832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wei Wang , Haiwang Liu , Yenchun Jim Wu , Mark Goh
{"title":"Citizen science resource mobilization: Social identities and textual narcissism","authors":"Wei Wang , Haiwang Liu , Yenchun Jim Wu , Mark Goh","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102157","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Narcissism, as a form of self-awareness of self-importance or self-influence, can be characterized by a constant attention to success and the need for authority, competitiveness, and grandiose, which may be introduced to promote the attractiveness of a project. This study analyzes the effect of textual narcissism on the willingness to back citizen science projects by considering the social roles of the citizen project owners: expert, student, and amateur researchers. This paper uses social role theory to anchor the seven forms of narcissism and proposes 9 dimensions of narcissism, which are then classified into 3 categories: social role advantage, psychological superiority, and identity aspiration. Using a web crawler, 850 citizen science projects are employed as a corpus. Text mining is used to quantify the narratives, and econometric models are applied to estimate the effect of textual narcissism. This study reports that narcissism presents an inverted U-shaped effect. On social role, formal researchers (experts and students) receive lesser degrees of public tolerance to textual narcissism, over amateur researchers. By extending narcissistic influence and social role theory to citizen science, this paper can guide stakeholders and regulators such as scientific experiment platforms in generating suitable text descriptions for better research resource mobilization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102157"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141407007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New possibilities or problems for disability and inclusion? The case of AI and ADMs across work","authors":"Kuansong Victor Zhuang , Gerard Goggin","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we examine new and emerging uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision making (ADM) across various aspects of work, namely hiring, job redesign, and team formation, and their impact on disabled people. Building on disability as both a generative form of embodiment and knowledge, we consider how AI and ADMs can enable and empower disabled people for work, but also their inherent problems and contradictions. We ask the following questions: What are the implications for disabled workers? And importantly, how can we make these systems fairer and more inclusive, especially for disability?</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102156"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585324000601/pdfft?md5=339eba1f9b98a44983cd17ab3999e0e9&pid=1-s2.0-S0736585324000601-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141333062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public attitudes towards surveillance and privacy of personal communications in 34 African countries","authors":"Adewunmi O Adeyeye","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines public attitudes regarding the privacy of personal communications across several African countries. The study additionally investigates factors influencing an individual’s expression of the right to privacy and rejection of state surveillance. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses were conducted on survey data gathered from 48,084 interviews completed in 34 countries. The findings reveal that, among the surveyed countries (34 out of 54 on the continent), a majority (54.87%) advocate for the protection of private communications. This indicates an increasing inclination among individuals to assert greater control over their personal information, which is being collected and utilized by governmental organizations and often by extension, private entities. The results demonstrate that education, gender, occupation, institutional trust, frequency of newspaper reading, perceptions of social media, attitudes towards internet regulation, opinions on government accountability, and the frequency of internet usage all significantly influence an individual’s stance on personal data privacy. Governments must strive for more effective communication with citizens to foster support for surveillance programs that achieve a delicate equilibrium between state security and the protection of privacy rights. This study provides an evidence base that policymakers, practitioners and academics can utilize to make informed decisions about data privacy attitudes and predict privacy actions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102147"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141239839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Users’ responses to humanoid social robots: A social response view","authors":"Gehan Wishwajith Premathilake, Hongxiu Li","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2024.102146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The anthropomorphic features of humanoid social robots (HSRs) have been contended to hold significance in understanding users’ behavior regarding HSRs. However, there is a lack of research examining how HSRs’ different anthropomorphic features could trigger users’ cognitive and behavioral responses. Utilizing social response theory as a foundation, our study presented a research model for scrutinizing how three different anthropomorphic features—appearance, voice, and response, influence users’ cognitive (perceived social presence and perceived humanness) and behavioral responses (continued usage intention) to HSRs. Data gathered from hotel customers (N = 509) from a survey posted online was utilized to validate the research model. Results showed that appearance and response positively affect perceived social presence, whereas appearance, voice, and response positively affect perceived humanness. Further, both perceived social presence and perceived humanness were found to positively influence continued usage intention. This research enriches the current literature on social robots by explaining how various anthropomorphic features as social cues could trigger user cognitive and behavioral responses differently from the social response lens.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102146"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585324000509/pdfft?md5=acab8987b57d9c7530c470471ca8646d&pid=1-s2.0-S0736585324000509-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141239838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}