Explicating multitasking with computers: Gratifications and situations
Abstract: This study tries to test the theory of uses and gratifications and the theory of situated action as explanations of multitasking in computer-mediated communication. Based on the data collected from an online survey (N =234), we find that as hypothesized, different gratifications and situat...
| Published in: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 1883 - 1892 |
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