More Than Just Talk on the Move: Uses and Gratifications of the Cellular Phone

By Louis Leung, Ran Wei. 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Media Technology, Sociology and Political Science

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Uses and Gratifications of Social Media: A Comparison of Facebook and Instant Messaging (2010, positive): “First, the items employed in Leung’s study resulted from integrating items from previous studies on the U&G of traditional (Rubin, 1979, 1983) and new media (Leung & Wei, 1999, 2000) and in addition had been tested extensively through focus group research and pilot testing of items.”
Linking perceived value and loyalty in location‐based mobile services (2005, background): “Gratification theories also talk about fashion, status and sociability that relate to similar aspects as social value indicating that use of mobile services may be a way to express personality, status, and image in a public context ( Leung and Wei, 2000”
Can you connect with me now? How the presence of mobile communication technology influences face-to-face conversation quality (2013, background): “…use broadly suggests that it is often aimed as a source of entertainment and a means for sociability (O’Keefe & Sulanowski, 1995), and indicates the use of phones is largely a way to feel closer with family members, to express care for others, and to be available to others (Leung & Wei, 2000).”
Students' Silent Messages: Can Teacher Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy Moderate Student Use of Text Messaging in Class? (2010, methodology): “…and gratifications approach was originally employed to evaluate television news usage (see Palmgreen, Wenner, & Rayburn, 1980), researchers (e.g., Leung & Wei, 2000; Wei & Lo, 2006), employing the gratification sought (GS) perspective, predicted that affection was the top reason to make a…”
The Mere Presence of a Cell Phone May be Distracting (2014, background): “…interpersonal relationships, mobile technology indeed does have the potential to expand people’s social connections and maintain or enhance their relationships with friends and family (Geser, 2002; Leung & Wei, 2000; Mathews, 2004; Srivastava, 2005; Wajcman, Bittman, & Brown, 2008; Wei & Lo, 2006).”
The Effects of Cell Phone Usage Rules on Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships (2012, background): “Among Hong Kong youth, cell phones provide status, mobility, and sociability (Leung & Wei, 2000).”
User-generated content on the internet: an examination of gratifications, civic engagement and psychological empowerment (2009, methodology): “…gratification items used in previous research into traditional and new media such as television (Rubin, 1983), personal computers (Lin, 1998), mobile phones (Leung and Wei, 2000) and the internet (Papacharissi and Rubin, 2000) and ICQ (Leung, 2001) were included in the survey questionnaire.”
Research Note: A Need or a Status Symbol? (2003, methodology): “The first factor was named ‘status/relaxation’, combining two of the titles used by Leung and Wei (2000). The items making up the factor have relatively low mean values, which indicate less agreement with the items.”
Too Much Information (2015, neutral): “In their study, Leung and Wei (2000) found two categories of reasons of cell phone use: instrumental and intrinsic factors.”
Implications of Mobility: The Uses of Personal Communication Media in Everyday Life (2006, background): “A study of uses and gratification also indicates that mobility in the narrow sense is not adequate to understand its full utility ( Leung & Wei, 2000 ).”
Generational differences in content generation in social media: The roles of the gratifications sought and of narcissism (2013, methodology): “…items used in previous research into traditional and new media, such as television (Rubin, 1983), personal computers (Lin, 1998), mobile phones (Leung & Wei, 2000), the Internet (Papacharissi & Rubin, 2000), friends-networking sites (Raacke & Bonds-Raacke, 2008), and ICQ (Leung, 2001) were…”