Contagion of kindness: Observability, recognition and shared experience as motivation for online prosocial behavior
[Thesis]
Kelly M. Alverson
Giannakos, Symeon A.
Salve Regina University
2015
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Committee members: Budd, Michael A.; O'Callaghan, Sean P.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-09416-8
Ph.D.
Humanities
Salve Regina University
2015
This dissertation employs a theoretical approach to examine the online milieu as an enabling space that allows individuals to act prosocially by providing opportunities for: observability of prosocial participation; receipt of explicit recognition toward the development of implicit recognition; and shared experience with the other, toward an end of increased empathic concern.
Ethics; Philosophy; Information Technology; Web Studies
Philosophy, religion and theology;Communication and the arts;Applied sciences;Altruism;Digitally mediated empathy;Egoism;Empathy;Motivation for other-interested action;Online participation;Prosocial action