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Explaining the success of social media with gratification niches: Motivations behind daytime, nighttime, and active use of TikTok in China
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“whereas socially rewarding self-presentations were motivator for posting TikTok videos.”
From Applying Uses and Gratifications Theory to TikTok: A systematic literature review of users' motivations (2025) · cites this paper as Scherr and Wang (2021)
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“The only difference in relation to gender was in the case of escapism, which appeared to be more relevant for women.”
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“Finally, trendiness was identified as the most important driver of daytime use”
From Applying Uses and Gratifications Theory to TikTok: A systematic literature review of users' motivations (2025) · cites this paper as Scherr and Wang (2021)
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“novelty as the most prominent driver of nighttime use”
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“the authors discovered the four gratification categories: socially rewarding self-presentation, trendiness, escapist addiction, and novelty.”
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“Observed by age, novelty was found to be the most important gratification for all users.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Scherr, S., & Wang, K.
- Affiliations
- Texas A&M University (US)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Kexin
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-11
- Volume
- 124
- Pages
- 106893
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3168669550
- Cited by
- 230
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 31 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 6
- FWCI
- 16.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- OPUS (Augsburg University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (19AXW007)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Digital Communication
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Keywords
- TikTok, uses and gratifications theory, niche theory, motivations for social media use, novelty seeking, trendiness, self-presentation, competitive displacement, age differences, gender differences, China
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