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Engagement on Digital Platforms: A Theoretical Perspective

In this short paper, we develop a comprehensive definition of digital platform engagement as a user’s degree of voluntary allocation of personal cognitive, emotional, and behavioral resources to a platform related interaction. We define each of these aspects of engagement – cognitive, emotional, and behavioral – as they relate to different objects with which users can interact: other users, the content/product that the service is offering, and the platform itself. We provide distinct conceptualizations of each of these dimensions of engagement as it relates to the objects that the users interact with, with the goal of resolving inconsistencies and disentangling concepts that are confounded with one another and to ultimately inform further academic research and practice.