Introduction: Inquiring Emerging Media through Dynamic and Theoretical Lenses
Part I. Adoption and Use of Emerging Media
Chapter 1. Podcast Adoption and Use: Impact of Diminishing Variation of Technology Advantage
Xigen Li and Li Zeng
Chapter 2. Getting News from Mobile Phones: Innovativeness vs. Personal Initiative in Second-level Adoption
Chapter 3. Media Dependency in the Digital Age: Effects of Perceived Channel Efficiency and Motivation and Orientation of Information Seeking
　
Part II. Online Involvement and Information Exchange
Chapter 4. Openness, Activeness and Diversity of Information Exchange in the Context of Online Social Networks
Xigen Li, Yang Liu and Mike Yao
Chapter 5. Legal and Extra-Legal Factors in Deterring Online Copyright Infringement
Xigen Li and Nico Nergadze
Chapter 6. Willingness to Contribute Information to Online Communities: Personal and Social Influences
Chapter 7. Third-person Effect, Optimistic Bias and Sufficiency Resource in Internet Use
Part III. Online Expression and Social Interaction
Chapter 8. What Motivate Online Disagreement Expression?: The Influence of Self-Efficacy, Mastery Experience, Vicarious Experience, and Verbal Persuasion
Xudong Liu and Xigen Li
Chapter 9. Disagreement Expression and Reasoned Opinions in Two U.S. Online Newspaper Forums,
Xudong Liu and Xigen Li
Chapter 10. Participatory Expressions in Blogs and Microblogs: An Analysis of Bloggers’ Structural Adaption in Two Chinese News Portals
Chapter 11. Are People More Willing to Express Minority Views on The Internet Than in Offline Public Settings?
Chapter 12. Contextual and Normative Influence on Willingness to Express Minority Views in Online and Offline Settings
Conclusion
Author Index
Subject Index
Biography
Xigen Li (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1999) is an associate professor of Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong.
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