A User’s Acceptance Model of Academic Blog and Its Empirical Study
Chen Minghong1, Qi Xianjun2
1. School of Information Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China; 2. School of Public Management, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Abstract：To explore key influencing factors of academic blog acceptance, this study builds a user's acceptance model of academic blog based on the Theory of Planned Behavior and Technology Acceptance Model. And the model is validated by PLS method through online questionnaire and paper questionnaire of 191valid responses from universities and scientific research institutions. The results indicate that perceived usefulness, perceived behavioral control and subject norm affect users' acceptance intentions to use academic blog, perceived ease of use is not significantly related to users' acceptance intentions to use academic blog.
陈明红, 漆贤军. 学术博客的用户接受模型及实证研究[J]. 现代图书情报技术, 2013, (12): 81-87.
Chen Minghong, Qi Xianjun. A User’s Acceptance Model of Academic Blog and Its Empirical Study. New Technology of Library and Information Service, 2013, (12): 81-87.
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