The Antecedents of Community-Oriented Internet Use: Community Participation and Community Satisfaction

The Antecedents of Community-Oriented Internet Use: Community Participation and Community Satisfaction

The linkage between the Internet and the offline community has been the subject of considerable research in the last decade. Scholars have been particularly interested in the effects of the Internet on offline community, and the relationship between Internet use and community participation. Based on the social shaping of technology and channel complementarity theories, this study proposes that ...

On Community-Oriented Internet Measurement

In this paper we describe a new measurement framework that researchers can use to abstract away some of the mundane logistic details that tend to dog every measurement project. The measurement community has outlined the need for better ways to gather assessments from a multitude of vantage points and our system is designed to be an open community-oriented response to this desire. While many pre...

Exploring the Antecedents and Consequences of Community-Based Drug Fight: A Mixed Approach

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the antecedents and consequences of community-based drug fight through a mixed approach. Method: The present study was deductive-inductive (mixed) of applied-exploratory type. The statistical population of the study included all activists in the field of community-based drug fight. 22 of them were selected using purposive sampling. A semi-structur...

Fluorination in the Community

یکی از مهمترین دست آوردهای تکنولوژی غذایی، تصفیه شکر از نیشکر و چغندر بوده است. بین سال های ۱۸۷۰ و ۱۹۱۰، شکر یک ماده غذایی ارزان قیمت شد و به خاطر شیرینی، در دسترس بودن به اشکال مختلف و مفید بودن به عنوان یک ماده غذایی قابل نگهداری به خوبی مورد قبول واقع شد. ولی نتیجه بعدی و ناشناخته این دسترسی آسان به شکر، افزایش خرابی و پوسیدگی دندانها بود. بررسی های اپیدمیولوژیکی نشان داد که تا سال های ۱۹۳۰ ...

Community Satisfaction