Associations Online: Barriers for Using Web-Based Communication in Voluntary Associations

Voluntas

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 730-753

  Eimhjellen, Ivar ^a,c   Wollebæk, Dag ^b   Strømsnes, Kristin ^c  

^a Uni Rokkan Centre   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Nonprofit organizations; Social network sites; Technology adoption barriers; Voluntary associations; Websites

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL NETWORK; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

NORWAY;

EID: 84900797367     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-013-9361-x     Document Type: Article

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