Attention or Appreciation? The Impact of Feedback on Online Volunteering

dc.contributor.author Tan, Jane
dc.contributor.author Jin, Fujie
dc.contributor.author Dennis, Alan
dc.date.accessioned 2020-01-04T08:25:38Z
dc.date.available 2020-01-04T08:25:38Z
dc.date.issued 2020-01-07
dc.description.abstract We examine how different types of feedback influence online volunteer contributions in the context of online consultations for college entrance applications, which requires the volunteer counselor and the person receiving help (the counselee) to be online at the same time. We investigate the impact of two types of feedback on volunteers’ participation: 1) appreciation, as reflected in the number of positive ratings received by a counselor from counselees; and 2) attention, as reflected in the readership of a counselor’s profile page. We find that appreciation encourages the volunteer to engage in more helping behavior, likely because it can activate the volunteer’s altruistic motivation. In contrast, attention discourages volunteers to offer more help, possibly because they feel they have accomplished enough or because they feel passed over when they receive a lot of attention but few requests for consultations. The findings suggest that platform designers should encourage appreciation from those helped and provide more nuanced feedback about attention.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2020.733
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-3-3
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/64475
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Strategy, Information, Technology, Economics and Society (SITES)
dc.subject online volunteerism
dc.subject reputation system
dc.subject voluntary contribution
dc.title Attention or Appreciation? The Impact of Feedback on Online Volunteering
dc.type Conference Paper
dc.type.dcmi Text
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