The perverse effects of social transparency on online advice taking

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 207-217

  Nguyen, Duyen T ^a   Dabbish, Laura A ^a   Kiesler, Sara ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Credibility; Decision Making; Information Sharing; Online Advice; Persuasion; Social Transparency

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TRANSPARENCY;

CREDIBILITY; INFORMATION SHARING; ONLINE ADVICE; PERSUASION; SOCIAL TRANSPARENCIES;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84968835251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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