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People regularly rely on social support from family, friends, and the public when mitigating security and privacy risks, even if mainstream technologies hardly support these interactions. In this paper, we evaluated Meerkat, a mobile application that ...

A neighborhood’s social cohesion, referring to the emotional and social connection of people within it, tends to have an influential impact on its crime level. Traditional approaches to measuring social cohesion and collective efficacy are mostly ...

This study examines how individual motivation and governance structure of online collaboration affect individual contribution and efficacy in a commons-based peer production (CBPP) community. Using survey data and structural equation modelling, this study ...

Social computing platforms (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) offer ways for youth activist groups to engage in civic action. However, it is challenging for youth activists to collaboratively leverage their networks and strategically engage in collective ...

Research questions about community among online learners are gaining importance as enrollments in online programs explode. However, what community means for this context has not been studied in a comprehensive way. We contribute a quantitative study of ...

With the rapid development of Internet technology, social networks have been widely used in the world, and some of them are really active and some people are just browsing. Based on this, the collective efficacy was proposed and the three element ...

Who is likely to be a target of online hate and extremism? To answer this question, we use an online survey N = 963 of youth and young adults recruited from a demographically balanced sample of Americans. Adapting routine activity theory, we distinguish ...

Because of the temporal, spatial, and functional dimensions in distributed organizations, members' cognitive processes play an important role in executing tasks. Coordination is necessary for successfully finishing tasks in distributed organizations. ...

Agent-based modeling and simulation of collective efficacy is useful to understand and study the relationship between community-related problems and individuals' cognitive process. This paper presents a design of collective efficacy simulation using an ...

This research purpose of this study was to explore the teachers' collective efficacy influence to the student learning outcomes, and the results will provide to teaching reference. This research applies the survey research method (valid retrieved ...

This study attempted to explore the role of group motivation (i.e. collective efficacy) and collaborative learning behavior (i.e. group cohesion; group cognitive involvement) in students' group performance in learning computer science in computer-...

As human-computer interaction increasingly focuses on mediated interactions among groups of individuals, there is a need to develop techniques for measurement and analysis of groups that have been scoped at the level of the group. Bandura's construct of ...

Speakeasy is an integrated web and telephone service that connects immigrants with multilingual volunteers who answer questions, give advice, and provide language interpretation. This system has been designed to improve access to social services and to ...