Opinion Leaders’ Online Community Migration in China: Factors and Path Analysis

Shen Yang Yang Yan-Ni

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2) : 6-22.

Opinion Leaders’ Online Community Migration in China: Factors and Path Analysis

  • Shen Yang is a Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University. His research interests include data mining, social media and government behavior. He can be reached at 124739259@qq.com. Yang Yan-Ni is a PhD student at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University. She can be reached at yangyanni614@foxmail.com.
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Media technology’s evolution has changed the communication way of information. Online opinion leaders active in the cyberspace affect multiple user groups across multiple platforms. Effective analysis on opinion leaders’ migration behavior of online community is beneficial to public opinion guidance and community operations and management. Through the survey of 20 opinion leaders’ usage behavior of online community, semi-structured in-depth interviews and grounded theory, the factor model of opinion leaders’ migration amongonline communities isbuilt from the impact of migration attitudes, subjective norms and perceived migration control on the migration intentions, which includes12 major external variables such aspersonality traits, dependencies, preferences, etc. Opinion leaders’ online community migration is divided into 5 paths based on behavioral decision-making process. After trying out and migrating to the new online community, the main paths are Path ②: opinion leaders migrate to the new communityand the old oneisout of use and Path③: opinion leaders maintain synchronous operation of old and new online communities.

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opinionleader / online community / community migration / migration intention / migration path

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Shen Yang Yang Yan-Ni. Opinion Leaders’ Online Community Migration in China: Factors and Path Analysis. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2016, 38(2): 6-22

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