Cultural values influence on the adoption of privacy threatening social networks features

Francesc Miralles*, Rosa Rudo, Ferran Giones

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Abstract

The effect of cultural values in IT adoption has attracted growing interest in the last years. Researchers posit that cultural values can shed some additional light on the factors that determine IT user acceptance and use. In this research in progress work, the authors propose a model based on previous user acceptance theories to develop a research study to inquire the role that individual cultural values play on the adoption of those social networks features that threat user's privacy the most. What the authors posit is that adoption of those features that are more critical from the point of view of users' privacy can be explained from the perspective of individual's cultural values. In this preliminary work, the authors have developed the model and have drawn a set of hypotheses. In the following steps of the research the authors are going to develop a survey to start the quantitative research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWEBIST 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology
Pages379-382
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2010 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: 7 Apr 201010 Apr 2010

Publication series

NameWEBIST 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology
Volume2

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2010
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period7/04/1010/04/10

Keywords

  • Cultural values
  • IT adoption
  • IT user acceptance
  • Privacy concerns
  • Social networks

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