Nama Budhathoki and I have just completed a paper on motivations to contribute to volunteer geographic information (VGI). I can send on the draft if you are interested. Nama has done thorough reviews of literature on VGI, volunteerism,serious leisure and peer production to explore motivations to contribute to online geographic systems. Our joint paper explores results from a study of OpenStreetMap based on ideas of motivation to contribute to crowds and/or communities online. These are Nama's background papers ... Budhathoki, N. R., Bruce, B. C., & Nedović-Budić , Z. (2008). Reconceptualizing the role of the user of spatial data infrastructure. GeoJournal, 72(3-4), 149-160. Budhathoki, N. R., Nedović-Budić, Z. & Bruce, B. (2010). An interdisciplinary frame for understanding volunteered geographic information. Geomatica, The Journal of Geospatial Information, Technology and Practice, 64(1). Budhathoki, N.R. (2010). Participants’ Motivations to Contribute Geographic Information In An Online Community. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL. And these are mine ... Haythornthwaite, C. (2009). Crowds and communities: Light and heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9457. Haythornthwaite, C. (2011a). Online knowledge crowds and communities. In Knowledge Communities. Reno, NV: Center for Basque Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14198 Haythornthwaite, C. (2011b). Democratic process in online crowds and communities. Proceedings of the e-Democracy conference. Vienna, Austria, May 5-6, 2011. Available online at: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/department/gpa/zeg/dokumente/cedem11_proccedings.pdf. In our joint paper we site these paper for motivations to volunteer Clary, G., & Synder, M. (1999). The motivations to volunteers: Theoretical and practical considerations. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, 8(5), 156-159. Clary, G., Snyder, M., Ridge, R. D., Copeland, J., Stukas, A. A., Haugen, J., et al. (1998). Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers: A functional approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(6), 1516-1530. Finkelstein, M. A., Penner, L. A., & Brannick, M. T. (2005). Motive, role identity, and prosocial personality as predictors of volunteer activity. Social Behavior and Personality, 33(4), 403-418. Houle, B. J., Sagarin, B. J., & Kaplan, M. F. (2005). A functional approach to volunteerism: Do volunteer motives predict task preference? Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 27(4), 337–344. And these on VGI Elwood, S. (2008). Volunteered geographic information: future research directions motivated by critical, participatory, and feminist GIS. GeoJournal, 72(3-4), 173-183. Goodchild, M. F. (2007). Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography. GeoJournal, 69, 211-221. /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite SLAIS, The iSchool@UBC c.haythorn@ubc.ca<mailto:c.haythorn@ubc.ca> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:31:09 -0400 From: Amy Bruckman <amy.bruckman@cc.gatech.edu> To: communication and information technology section asa <citasa@list.citasa.org> Subject: [CITASA] research on volunteering? Message-ID: <17BEDE3E-42D2-476C-A9C7-9564E5C3E97D@mail.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am hoping to start a new research project on using social media to encourage volunteering. I am guessing there's a big literature on why people get involved in volunteer work, what sustains participation over time, and why they drop out? Are there classic papers in this area I should read? Thanks for your help! -- Amy Amy Bruckman