Connectivity and college students’ participation in micro-charity: a qualitative study in China

References

• Andreoni, J., Rao, J. M., & Trachtman, H. (2011). Avoiding the ask: A field experiment on altruism, empathy, and charitable giving (Working Paper). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
   Google Scholar
• Bennett, R., Kerrigan, F., O’Reilly, D., Skarmeas, D., & Shabbir, H. A. (2011). Relationship quality and giving behaviour in the UK fundraising sector: Exploring the antecedent roles of religiosity and Self-construal. European Journal of Marketing, 45, 720–738.10.1108/03090561111120000
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bennett, W. L., & Segerberg, A. (2012). The logic of connective action: Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics. Information, Communication & Society, 15, 739–768.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cheng, L., & Zhao, Y. (2015). Person, circle and society: Interpersonal transmission in the context of sefl-media. News World, 138–139 ( in Chinese).
   Google Scholar
• CNNIC. (2015). Statistical report on internet development in China. Beijing: Chinese Internet Network Information Centre. Retrieved from http://www1.cnnic.cn/IDR/ReportDownloads/201507/P020150720486421654597.pdf
   Google Scholar
• DeLuca, K. M., Brunner, E., & Sun, Y. (2016). Weibo, Wechat, and the transformative events of environmental activism on China’s wild public screens. International Journal of Communication, 10, 321–339.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Du, L., Qian, L., & Feng, Y. (2014). Influences of altruistic motivation, shared vision, and perceived accessibility on microcharity behavior. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, 42, 1639–1650.10.2224/sbp.2014.42.10.1639
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elwood, S., & Leszczynski, A. (2013). New spatial media, new knowledge politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38, 544–559.10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00543.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fan, Y. (2002). Questioning guanxi: Definition, classification and implications. International Business Review, 11, 543–561.10.1016/S0969-5931(02)00036-7
   Google Scholar
• Fei, X. (1992). From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society. (G. G. Hamilton, & W. Zheng, Trans.). Berkeley: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Harwit, E. (2014). The rise and influence of weibo (microblogs) in China. Asian Survey, 54, 1059–1087.10.1525/as.2014.54.6.1059
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Huang, R., & Sun, X. (2014). Weibo network, information diffusion and implications for collective action in China. Information, Communication & Society, 17, 86–104.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kagitcibasi, C. (2005). Autonomy and relatedness in cultural context: Implications for self and family. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36, 403–422.10.1177/0022022105275959
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karpf, D. (2010). Online political mobilization from the advocacy group’s perspective: Looking beyond clicktivism. Policy & Internet, 2, 7–41.
   Google Scholar
• Lacetera, N., Macis, M., & Mele, A. (2016). Viral altruism? Charitable giving and social contagion in online networks. Sociological Science, 3, 202–238.10.15195/issn.2330-6696
   Google Scholar
• Lieblich, A., Zilber, T. B., & Tuval-Mashiach, R. (2008). Narrating human actions the subjective experience of agency, structure, communion, and serendipity. Qualitative Inquiry, 14, 613–631.10.1177/1077800408314352
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu, W. (2015). Good people, good and good deeds: Chinese view on charity. Social Science Front, 188–196 ( in Chinese).
   Google Scholar
• Luo, S., & Li, P. (2010). A Sociological Analysis on the rareness of Charity consciousness in Chinese Publics. Journal of Beijing Youth Politics College, 19, 48–51 ( in Chinese).
   Google Scholar
• Miller, J., & Glassner, B. (1997). The ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’: Finding realities in interviews. In D. Silverman (Ed.), Qualitative research (pp. 99–112). Lonodn: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Morozov, E. (2012). The net delusion: The dark side of Internet freedom. New York, NY: PublicAffairs.
   Google Scholar
• Opoku, R. A. (2013). Examining the motivational factors behind charitable giving among young people in a prominent Islamic country. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 18, 172–186.10.1002/nvsm.1457
   Google Scholar
• Piff, P. K., Kraus, M. W., Côté, S., Cheng, B. H., & Keltner, D. (2010). Having less, giving more: The influence of social class on prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 771–784.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reyniers, D., & Bhalla, R. (2013). Reluctant altruism and peer pressure in charitable giving. Judgment and Decision Making, 8, 7–15.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schlozman, K. L., & Brady, H. E. (2012). The unheavenly chorus: Unequal political voice and the broken promise of American democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Shier, M. L., & Handy, F. (2012). Understanding online donor behavior: The role of donor characteristics, perceptions of the internet, website and program, and influence from social networks. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 17, 219–230.10.1002/nvsm.1425
   Google Scholar
• Spires, A. J. (2011). Contingent symbiosis and civil society in an authoritarian state: Understanding the survival of China’s grassroots NGOs1. American Journal of Sociology, 117(1), 1–45.10.1086/660741
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1998). Basics of qualitative research. London: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Svensson, M. (2014). Voice, power and connectivity in China’s microblogosphere: Digital divides on SinaWeibo. China Information, 28, 168–188.10.1177/0920203X14540082
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tan, D., & Snell, R. S. (2002). The third eye: Exploring guanxi and relational morality in the workplace. Journal of Business Ethics, 41, 361–384.10.1023/A:1021217027814
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Taylor, S. J., & Bogdan, R. (1998). Introduction to qualitative research methods: The search for meaning (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Wiley.
   Google Scholar
• Van Dijck, J. (2009). Users like you? Theorizing agency in user-generated content. Media, Culture & Society, 31, 41–58.10.1177/0163443708098245
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Dijck, J. (2010). Flickr and the culture of connectivity: Sharing views, experiences, memories. Memory Studies, 4, 401–415.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Dijck, J. (2011). Facebook as a tool for producing sociality and connectivity. Television & New Media, 13, 160–176.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Dijck, J. (2013). The culture of connectivity: A critical history of social media. Oxford: Oxford University Press.10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199970773.001.0001
   Google Scholar
• Van Dijck, J., & Poell, T. (2013). Understanding social media logic. Media and Communication, 1, 2–14.10.17645/mac.v1i1.70
   Google Scholar
• Wellman, B. (2001). Little boxes, glocalization, and networked individualism. In G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, & J. van Leeuwen (Eds.), Digital cities II: Computational and sociological approaches (pp. 10–25). New York, NY: Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Wellman, B., Quan-Haase, A., Boase, J., Chen, W., Hampton, K., Díaz, I., & Miyata, K. (2003). The social affordances of the internet for networked individualism. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(3). Retrieved May, 2016, from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00216.x/full
   Google Scholar
• Wen, P., Li, H., & Ma, K. (2005). Longitudinal study from 1987 to 2004 on youth values and its implication on education. Social Science, 65–70 ( in Chinese).
   Google Scholar
• Wiepking, P., & Breeze, B. (2012). Feeling poor, acting stingy: The effect of money perceptions on charitable giving. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 17, 13–24.10.1002/nvsm.v17.1
   Google Scholar
• Yan, M. C., Huang, X., Foster, K. W., & Tester, F. (2007). Charity development in China an overview. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 17, 79–94.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yang, G. (2009). The power of the Internet in China: Citizen activism online. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Yang, Y. (2009). Guanxilization or categorization: Psychological mechanisms contributing to the formation of the Chinese concept of “us”. Social Sciences in China, 30, 49–67.
   Google Scholar
• Ye, S. (2007). The characteristics and influential factors of contemporary adolescents’ values: An investigation on 2426 adolescents in Anhui province. Youth Studies, 20–24 ( in Chinese).
   Google Scholar
• Zheng, Y., & Yu, A. (2016). Affordances of social media in collective action: The case of free lunch for children in China. Information Systems Journal, 26, 289–313.10.1111/isj.v26.3
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar