英文摘要 |
The primary focus of this study is to build up an internet para-social interaction theory. Using knowing (which includes usability and content richness), feeling and doing as independent variables and using para-social interaction as dependent variable, this study intended to ask questions of 1) how internet users interact with internet content? 2) with what characteristics can internet content enhance users para-social interaction? The results indicated that after controlling demographic data and users purpose of using internet content, knowing, feeling and doing still explain 59% of users internet para-social interaction, with feeling (54%) as the leading variable which owned the strongest power of explanation, following with doing (37%), content richness (34%) and usability (32%). The results of this study proved that the validity of our internet para-social interaction theory is quite robust. In order to enhance the reliability of our theory, researches based on random samples should be undertaken in the future. |