Discord users continue to grow as the coronavirus pandemic has increased demand for voice chat services. With Discord, users can create channels as communities, interacting with each other through voice or text chat. In order to explore the correlations between social presence, sense of virtual community and continuous use intention of virtual community which users perceived, the study adopts the online survey method and a total of 409 effective responses has been collected. The results indicate that voice-based interaction is perceived as higher than text-based interaction in terms of social presence, sense of virtual community and continuous use intention of virtual community. Besides social presence and sense of virtual community, there is also a significant positive correlation between sense of virtual community and continuous use intention of virtual community. Additionally, social presence has a full mediation effect between sense of virtual community and both voice-based and text-based interaction.
中文關鍵詞
社會臨場感、社群媒體、持續參與意圖、虛擬社群、虛擬社群意識
英文關鍵詞
Social Presence, Social Media, Continuous Use Intention, Virtual Community, Sense of Virtual Community