The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults

This dissertation examines advertising avoidance and attempt to discover why advertising avoidance software is used or not used in the online world. Our discoveries support many that have been published by previous authors. These include reasons why people use online Adblocking software and avoid ad...

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Main Author: Meina, Makarious
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27417/
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description This dissertation examines advertising avoidance and attempt to discover why advertising avoidance software is used or not used in the online world. Our discoveries support many that have been published by previous authors. These include reasons why people use online Adblocking software and avoid ads in general like Convenience, Clutter and Intrusiveness among many other supported findings. However in contrast to previous research this study revealed that people disable or turn off their adblocking software to view ads purposefully in an attempt to support websites and personalities they enjoy online.
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spelling nottingham-274172017-10-19T13:56:47Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27417/ The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults Meina, Makarious This dissertation examines advertising avoidance and attempt to discover why advertising avoidance software is used or not used in the online world. Our discoveries support many that have been published by previous authors. These include reasons why people use online Adblocking software and avoid ads in general like Convenience, Clutter and Intrusiveness among many other supported findings. However in contrast to previous research this study revealed that people disable or turn off their adblocking software to view ads purposefully in an attempt to support websites and personalities they enjoy online. 2014-09-18 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27417/1/Makarious_Meina_Dissertation.pdf Meina, Makarious (2014) The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults
title The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults
title_full The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults
title_fullStr The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults
title_full_unstemmed The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults
title_short The use of Technological Resources: An investigation of Ad Avoidance Online among Young Adults
title_sort use of technological resources: an investigation of ad avoidance online among young adults
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27417/