Examining the effects of trust-promoting IT-features on user participation: A content analysis of online communities

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages 3759-3768

  Höhne, Elisabeth ^a   Benlian, Alexander ^a   Hess, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Online communities; Quality assured content; Security and privacy; Transparency; Trust promoting IT features; Usability; User participation

Indexed keywords

ONLINE COMMUNITIES; QUALITY-ASSURED CONTENT; SECURITY AND PRIVACY; TRUST-PROMOTING IT-FEATURES; USABILITY; USER PARTICIPATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TRANSPARENCY; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870520715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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