Welcome to the club : from multimodal voluntary participation to community involvement

• Main Authors: Lai, Chih-Hui, Chen, Wenhong
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Voluntary Associations; New Media
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106878; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48988; https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4964
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study integrates the theory of media multiplexity and a social network perspective to examine whether and how multiple modes of participation in voluntary groups, that is, multimodal voluntary participation, facilitate community involvement. Analyzing a 2013 random sample survey of 400 resident...