Drivers of Quantity and Quality of Participation in Online Policy Deliberation Forums

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 172-212

  Phang, Chee Wei ^a   Kankanhalli, Atreyi ^b   Huang, Lihua ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cocreation; online policy deliberation forum; participation theory; public policy deliberation; quality of participation; quantity of participation

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CO-CREATION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE FORUMS; ONLINE POLICY DELIBERATION FORUM; PARTICIPATION THEORY; QUANTITY OF PARTICIPATION; THEORETICAL MODELING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84938890248     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: 1557928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2014.995549     Document Type: Review

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