These notes have the status of letters written to ourselves: we wrote them down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making up new arguments over and over again. So began the abstract of our earlier paper Notes on Postmodern Programming. We now revisit the issue of postmodern programming, and attempt to address some of the questions raised by our exposition. To illustrate the nature of...

In conjunction with the worldwide use of smartphones, countless application software packages, commonly known as Apps, have also seen with rapid development. Despite the substantial number of downloaded Apps globally, factors influencing users’ continuance intention with App usage are still vague. Grounded in the IS continuance theory, this study introduces utilitarian, hedonic and social persp...

One of the least contestable features of postmodernism is its refusal to accept the hierarchy of value and élitism implied in the d istinction between high culture and popular culture. In the genealogies frequently circulated , postmodernism is pictured in opposition to two versions of modernism: a modernism codified and conquered by the academy and museum, incorporated as a high cultural artef...

The authors compared linear and nonlinear relations between affective and continuance commitment and 3 commonly studied work outcomes (turnover cognitions, absenteeism, and job performance), observed in 3 separate research settings. Using a linear model, they replicated the common observation in the literature that affective commitment is more strongly related to work outcomes than continuance ...

The IS continuance model has been extensively applied in past studies for investigating continued information system (IS) usage behavior. The current study attempts to extend the post-adoption beliefs in the IS continuance model based on effort-accuracy model, by extending the application of IS continuance model beyond an instrumental focus. The extended IS continuance model, incorporating the ...