Tweet this: A uses and gratifications perspective on how active Twitter use gratifies a need to connect with others

By Gina Masullo Chen. Computers in Human Behavior, 2011

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Social media engagement: What motivates user participation and consumption on YouTube? (2017, neutral): “…social media use; such as, Instagram (Sheldon & Bryant, 2016), Facebook (Krause, North, & Heritage, 2014; Smock, Ellison, Lampe, & Wohn, 2011), digital photo sharing on Facebook (Malik, Dhir, & Nieminen, 2016), Pinterest (Mull & Lee, 2014) and Twitter use (Liu, Cheung, and Lee, 2010; Chen, 2011).”
The uses and abuses of Facebook: A review of Facebook addiction (2014, background): “As Chen (2011) notes, “multiple media compete for users’ attention”, and “active users select the medium that meets their needs” (p.”
Towards Decision Support and Goal Achievement: Identifying Action-Outcome Relationships From Social Media (2015, background): “With the wide-spread adoption of social networking services over the last 10-15 years, much research has focused on understanding people’s motivations and participatory behavior on these sites, both from a qualitative as well as quantitative perspective [27, 14, 19, 21, 13, 32, 26, 36, 6, 42].”
Mirror or Megaphone?: How relationships between narcissism and social networking site use differ on Facebook and Twitter (2013, background): “Evidence also suggests that the amount of time spent using Twitter is positively associated with a need for connection and that this relationship is mediated by the frequency with which Twitter users post or ‘‘tweet’’ (Chen, 2010).”
A Little Bird Told Me, So I Didn't Believe It: Twitter, Credibility, and Issue Perceptions (2012, background): “As Chen (2011) pointed out, social gratifications are a key motivator for Twitter use, and one-directional news distribution may be unlikely to serve such motivations.”
Instagram: Motives for its use and relationship to narcissism and contextual age (2016, background): “This is different from the main reason for using Facebook (Krause et al., 2014; Sheldon, 2008; Smock et al., 2011), Twitter (Chen, 2011; Johnson & Yang, 2009), YouTube (Hanson & Haridakis, 2008), or Pinterest (Mull & Lee, 2014).”
Twitter versus Facebook: Exploring the role of narcissism in the motives and usage of different social media platforms (2014, background): “Unlike Facebook, few empirical investigations have been conducted using Twitter (e.g., Chen, 2011; Hughes et al., 2012; McKinney et al., 2012; Panek et al., 2013).”
Professional Team Sport and Twitter: Gratifications Sought and Obtained by Followers (2014, methodology): “This method for distribution of a questionnaire has been successful in previous new-media, Twitter, and uses-and-gratification studies (Chen, 2011; Clavio & Kian, 2010; Johnson & Yang, 2009).”
Phubbed and Alone: Phone Snubbing, Social Exclusion, and Attachment to Social Media (2017, background): “Two theories are helpful in understanding the proposed link between phubbed individuals’ need for attention and social media intensity: Uses and Gratifications Theory (Katz, Blumler, and Gurevitch 1973; Chen 2011; Han et al. 2015) andOptimal Flow Theory (Salehan andNegahban 2013).”
Problematic Instagram Use: The Role of Perceived Feeling of Presence and Escapism (2018, background): “Moreover, Chen (2011) found that tweeting, retweeting, and replying to others’ tweets more frequently were positively associated with the gratification of the need to connect to others on Twitter.”
Watch, Share or Create: The Influence of Personality Traits and User Motivation on TikTok Mobile Video Usage (2020, background): “Advocating the idea of active audience, the theory guides the assessment of users’ motivations of media use and access [13] and the understanding of social and psychological factors influencing media use[14] [15] [16].”
Uses and Grats 2.0: New Gratifications for New Media (2013, background): “Much of the current literature in this area (Chen, 2011; Haridakis & Hansen, 2009; Papacharissi & Mendelson, 2007; Yoo, 2011) shows a great deal of conceptual overlap from previous studies, but also clearly indicates that more nuanced gratifications are emerging.”
Why We Follow: An Examination of Parasocial Interaction and Fan Motivations for Following Athlete Archetypes on Twitter (2012, background): “Research has also suggested that Twitter acts as a forum for developing bonds of informal camaraderie (Chen, 2011).”
What is eSports and why do people watch it? (2017, background): “…Papacharissi and Rubin, 2000; Whiting and Williams, 2013), including online games (Wu et al., 2010), Facebook ( Joinson, 2008), video streaming (Cha, 2014; Chiang and Hsiao, 2015; Sjöblom and Hamari, 2017), Twitter ( Johnson and Yang, 2009; Chen, 2011) and fantasy sports (Farquhar and Meeds, 2007).”