Research Interests by Faculty Member
Catherine Ridings
Associate Professor of ManagementBack to top
Research Areas
- Virtual Worlds
- Technology Adoption and Use
- Electronic Commerce
- Trust
- Social Networks
- Virtual Communities
Publications
Gefen, David and Ridings, Catherine. "If You Spoke As She Does, Sir, Instead of The Way You Do: A Sociolinguistics Perspective of Gender Differences in Virtual Communities," The DATABASE for Advances in INformation Systems, (36:2), 2005, pp. 78-92, http://www.baylor.edu/databaseJrnl/index.php?id=25760
Ridings, Catherine; Gefen, David; Arinze, Bay, "Psychological Barriers: Lurker and Poster Motivation and Behavior in Online Communities," Communications of the AIS (18:16), 2006, 329-354
Ridings, Catherine and Gefen, David, "Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang Out Online," Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (10:1), 2004 http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue1/ridings_gefen.html
Gefen, David; Ragowski, Arik; and Ridings, Catherine. "Leadership and Justice: Increasing non-participating users' assessment of an IT through passive participation." Information and Management (45:8), 2008, 507-512