PREDICTING DIGITAL CONTACT TRACING TOOL ADOPTION DURING COVID-19 FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TAM: THE ROLE OF TRUST, FEAR, PRIVACY, ANXIETY, AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Predicting digital contact tracing tool adoption during COVID-19 from the perspective of TAM: The role of trust, fear, privacy, anxiety, and social media

Objective The emergence of more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variants, such as EG.5 (Eris), has heightened the urgency of assessing associated risks and managing the spread of infections.Digital Contact Tracing (DCT) tools have been widely adopted to mitigate these risks, although the factors driving their acceptance are complex and multifaceted.However,

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Discursive Games and Gamic Discourses

Digital games are an increasingly prominent media form but are consistently ignored in critical communication scholarship.Several voices in the field of game studies have advocated the application of communication and rhetorical theory to the study of games, but this effort to cross-pollinate bird treats game studies and communication studies has n

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