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Social media has afforded its users more convenience than ever in accessing, sharing, and preserving information. However, one problematic outcome, digital hoarding, has become a phenomenon of concern nowadays in hedonic social media use. This study aims to investigate the causes of digital hoarding and how it is exacerbated in the hedonic social media context. We divide the digital hoarding of information into two dimensions (ie, accumulating and difficulty deleting) and draw on the conceptual lens of fear of missing out (FoMO) to understand separately the generative mechanism of these two dimensions in social media. In addition, we consider the causes of FoMO and the moderating effect of social media affordances (ie, the recommending affordance, and the content-sharing affordance) between FoMO and the two dimensions of digital hoarding. For this study, we collected 330 valid questionnaires and tested the hypotheses by partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results show that FoMO significantly positively affects accumulating and difficulty deleting. Furthermore, the recommending affordance positively moderated the influence of FoMO on difficulty deleting; the content-sharing affordance positively moderated the influence of FoMO on accumulating. In addition, information anxiety and attachment anxiety can strongly predict FoMO. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications of this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Value co‐creation as a research topic has been a critical proposition of interest to a wide range of disciplines. In recent years, the field of cultural heritage has also developed a range of information practices to promote different forms of value co‐creation. While the body of literature has begun to accumulate, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of conceptual foundations and how value co‐creation is implemented in cultural heritage information practices. This paper conducted a hermeneutic literature review to understand and conceptualize the core aspects of value co‐creation in various cultural heritage information works. In particular, this paper provides a research mapping of the genres of co‐creation in cultural heritage information practices, the actors, and the roles played by the stakeholders. Further, this review provides an overview of the dominant value co‐creation models in the cultural heritage field. It distills the drivers of value co‐creation and the core value consequences that arise from a process perspective. Finally, this paper puts forward a thematic, theoretical, and methodological agenda for future work based on these findings. The review contributes to the literature by proposing an integrated conceptual framework that summarizes the core elements of value co‐creation in cultural heritage information practices. The framework also serves as a call for action, providing a general understanding of the conceptual foundation for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freemium open-world games have become one of the most profitable game genres through the sale of in-game items. However, despite the apparent commercial success of the freemium approach to open-world games, the antecedents of players' in-game purchase intention have been understudied. In this study, we built a theoretical framework based on cognitive absorption (CA) theory to understand the mechanism underlying players' in-game purchase intention in open-world games. Several hypotheses were proposed regarding how CA was formed and how CA's influence on in-game purchase intention might be moderated by motivational affordances (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness). These hypotheses were tested by partial least-squares structural equation modeling, using a sample of 490 valid responses among open-world game players. The results suggest that CA significantly increased players' in-game purchase intention, which is strengthened by two motivational affordances (i.e., autonomy and competence). In addition, personal innovativeness, playfulness, and perceived affective quality are verified as important determinants of CA in open-world games. We discuss the related theoretical and practical implications of these findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]