Persuasive social features that promote knowledge sharing among tertiary students on social networking sites: An empirical study.
Persuasive system features have been widely adopted to encourage attitude and behaviour change. Recently, most social networking sites (SNS) adopt some form of persuasive system features that leverage social influence to deliberately induce prescribed behaviours in their users. However, studies on h...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 636 - 646 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2020
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