Let us Meet Online! Examining the Factors Influencing Older Chinese's Social Networking Site Use.
This paper aims to examine the factors influencing older Chinese's social networking site (SNS) use and to help older people live a better life in this technology-oriented world. A proposed model composed of eight hypotheses was built according to Diffusion of Innovation Theory and was tested via 72...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 35 - 50 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2019
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