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Research on the Influencing Factors of Digital Hoarding Behaviour of College Students under the Perspective of Media Affordances

Author(s)

Jinglei Nie

Affiliation(s)

Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing, China

Abstract

In the era of digital existence, mediated behaviours are interpenetrating with daily life, and retrieving and acquiring information on the Internet has become a daily habit of modern people. In the face of high-intensity information pushing on the Internet, users inevitably choose "collection" as a stopgap measure, and collection has become an important "memory prosthesis" in the digital era, and digital hoarding behaviour has gradually become the habitual behaviour of a considerable part of Internet users. As one of the active groups in the Internet, college students are happy to engage in digital hoarding behaviours in their daily life and study process to expand their digital space. However, excessive digital hoarding behaviour makes college students face negative impacts such as information overload and under-utilisation of information. Therefore, this paper attempts to explore the influencing factors of digital hoarding in college students from the perspective of Media Affordances, and proposes targeted guidance strategies from the subject and object levels to help improve the data management ability of college students and other groups.

Keywords

Media Affordances; College Students; Digital Hoarding; Influencing Factors

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