Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective
For social, emotional and cognitive development of the human being, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) provide an important milieu that eventually leads the human experience to the new era. Malaysia is one of the top countries where social networking sites are adopted faster. The purpose of this study i...
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| author | Jan, Muhammad Tahir Abdullah, Kalthom Momen, Abdul |
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| description | For social, emotional and cognitive development of the human being, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) provide an important milieu that eventually leads the human experience to the new era. Malaysia is one of the top countries where social networking sites are adopted faster. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors influencing the Malaysian Muslim users to adopt social networking sites. It will justify the social, educational, technological and other factors behind the adoption of social networking sites like Facebook, twitter and MySpace. The paper is conceptual in nature and proposes that a future research can be conducted with the Structural Equation modeling approach to sort out the significance and the relative importance of these factors behind the Muslim users’ adoption of social networking sites in Malaysia. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:350912014-03-08T22:41:00Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/35091/ Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective Jan, Muhammad Tahir Abdullah, Kalthom Momen, Abdul HF Commerce HF5001 Business. Business Administration HF5410 Marketing. Distribution of products For social, emotional and cognitive development of the human being, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) provide an important milieu that eventually leads the human experience to the new era. Malaysia is one of the top countries where social networking sites are adopted faster. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors influencing the Malaysian Muslim users to adopt social networking sites. It will justify the social, educational, technological and other factors behind the adoption of social networking sites like Facebook, twitter and MySpace. The paper is conceptual in nature and proposes that a future research can be conducted with the Structural Equation modeling approach to sort out the significance and the relative importance of these factors behind the Muslim users’ adoption of social networking sites in Malaysia. 2013 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/35091/1/Tahir.pdf Jan, Muhammad Tahir and Abdullah, Kalthom and Momen, Abdul (2013) Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective. In: 4th International Conference on Economics, Business and Management, 8 - 9 December, 2013, Sydney, Australia. (Unpublished) http://www.icebm.org/program%20Dec.%202013%20Sydney.pdf |
| spellingShingle | HF Commerce HF5001 Business. Business Administration HF5410 Marketing. Distribution of products Jan, Muhammad Tahir Abdullah, Kalthom Momen, Abdul Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective |
| title | Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective |
| title_full | Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective |
| title_short | Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective |
| title_sort | factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites malaysian muslim users perspective |
| topic | HF Commerce HF5001 Business. Business Administration HF5410 Marketing. Distribution of products |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/35091/1/Tahir.pdf |
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