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Cross-cultural gender differences in the adoption and usage of social media platforms : An exploratory study of Last.FM
Putzke, Johannes; Fischbach, Kai; Schoder, Detlef; u. a. (2014): Cross-cultural gender differences in the adoption and usage of social media platforms : An exploratory study of Last.FM, in: Computer Networks, Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier, Jg. 75, Nr. Part B, Special Issue on Online Social Networks The Connectedness, Pervasiveness and Ubiquity of Online Social Networks, S. 519–530, doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2014.08.027.
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Computer Networks
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1389-1286
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Year of publication:
2014
Volume:
75
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Part B, Special Issue on Online Social Networks The Connectedness, Pervasiveness and Ubiquity of Online Social Networks
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Language:
English
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This paper examines cross-cultural gender differences in the adoption and usage of the social media platform Last.FM. From a large-scale empirical study of 3748 Last.FM users from Australia, Finland, Germany, and the United States of America, we find: (1) men listen to more pieces of music on social media platforms than do women; (2) women focus their listening on fewer musical genres and fewer tracks than do men; (3) women register on Last.FM later than do “early adopting” men (absolutely and in comparison to their friends), but at a younger age; (4) women maintain more virtual friendships on Last.FM than do men; and (5) women, when choosing music to listen to on social media platforms, are more likely than are men to choose tracks that correspond to mainstream tastes.
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Adoption
Cross-cultural differences
Gender
Social media
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Article
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June 30, 2015
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