Motivation for participation in online neighborhood watch communities: An empirical study involving invitation letters

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 760-765

  Violi, Nicholas ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a   Hanson, Art ^b   Rey, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Nation of Neighbors ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Community safety; Invitations; Motivation; Neighborhood watch; Online communities; Participation; Social media

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY SAFETY; INVITATIONS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; EXPERIMENTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SURVEYS;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84856152254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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