Persuasion in prosocial domains: Explaining the persuasive affordances of volunteering websites

ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Slattery, Peter ^a   Finnegan, Patrick ^a   Vidgen, Richard ^b   Land, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour change; Persuasion; Prosocial behaviour; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIOUR CHANGES; PERSUASION; POSITIVE EMOTIONS; PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; REPERTORY GRID TECHNIQUE (RGT); SOCIAL ISSUES; VOLUNTEERING; WEBSITE FEATURES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84905851907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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