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Christoph Lutz
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Item type:Publication, Organizational Antecedents of Social Media Adoption in Public Administration : Considering the Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial OrientationResearch increasingly explores the opportunities social media provide to public sector organizations. Yet, only few empirical studies have addressed the organizational antecedents of social media adoption in this particular context. Based on innovation diffusion literature, we propose a number of organizational antecedents of social media adoption in public administration. At the same time, we find that - due to high levels of formalization and centralization - formal organizational characteristics may exhibit little variability in the public administration context. We therefore suggest that the explanatory power of the proposed model could be increased by considering an intermediate construct capturing the organization's predisposition to explore new media. From current innovation literature, we derive Entrepreneurial Orientation as a potential mediator of social media adoption. Based on a survey among 2'092 employees of a German state-level administration, we test both an unmediated and a partially mediated model of organizational antecedents of social media adoption. We find that Leadership support, Employee autonomy, Bureaucratization, and Social Influence affect social media adoption. Taking the mediating effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation into consideration increases the explanatory power of the proposed model.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Spiral of Silence 2.0 : Impression Management and Political Self-Censorsip on FacebookDo social media strengthen or weaken citizen's political participation? Authors have found that, while lowering the cost of political engagement, social media may also foster the fragmentation of audiences and contribute to an increasingly polarized political discourse. This study applies the "spiral of silence" theory to political discourse among digital natives on the social networking platform Facebook. We hypothesize that users perceiving their online network as politically heterogeneous will be more likely to engage in self-censorship and limit their political self-expression. Previous studies have found that impression management, i.e., communication behaviour geared towards projecting a socially desirable self, increases engagement in online social networks. Accordingly, we hypothesize that users geared towards impression management will be more engaged in online political discourse. We test these hypotheses based on a survey among German Facebook users under the age of 30 and find that network heterogeneity does indeed increase political self-censorship while impression management increases users' willingness to speak out.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Political Engagement of Digital Natives on Facebook : The Moderating Role of Impression ManagementThis contribution addresses the moderating role of impression management on the relationship between online and offline political participation. It concentrates on young citizens in Switzerland and Germany aged 18-30. After a discussion of the slacktivism thesis as the theoretical backbone of the paper, we describe the dataset and present the method of analysis. Significant differences in political participation - both online and offline - as well as in impression management between Germany and Switzerland exist. Using linear regression models, we elaborate salient drivers of offline participation. Contradicting the slacktivism thesis, we do not find a weakening effect of different impression management techniques on the relationship between political participation on Facebook and offline participation forms, such as demonstrating. By contrast, certain impression management techniques strengthen the online-offline link, while others do not exert a moderating effect. Overall, young citizens in Germany and Switzerland seem to be able to transfer their political engagement on Facebook to offline settings, even when they reveal high levels of impression management. Political engagement on Facebook is not an isolated act of self-staging that fizzles out in the virtual sphere.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Too Much of a Good Thing? : Technostress and Information Overload Among Young Swiss(ICA International Communication Association, 2013-06-20); ; Technostress and information overload are serious challenges of the Information Age. An alarming number of people exhibit excessive media consumption, while Internet addiction seems to be an increasingly widespread phenomenon (Christakis et al., 2011). Although there is evidence for technostress and information overload in a range of studies (Bawden & Robinson, 2009; Eppler & Mengis, 2004; Shenk, 1997; Wang et al., 2008), little is known about how young people feel about overexposure to technology and new media (Akin, 1998). In order to address this gap, we present findings from a survey addressing the social media usage and perceptions of individuals, collected at the Museum for Communication in Bern, Switzerland. Based on a sample including 1915 children and 6989 adolescents and through a quantitative approach (OLS regressions) we explore the impact of cultural background, age and social status on differences in technostress.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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