TY - JOUR
T1 - Facebook-to-Facebook
T2 - online communication and economic cooperation
AU - Abatayo, Anna Lou
AU - Lynham, John
AU - Sherstyuk, Katerina
PY - 2018/6/25
Y1 - 2018/6/25
N2 - Direct face-to-face communication has traditionally been found to be more effective for fostering economic cooperation than any form of indirect, mediated communication. We inquire whether this is still the case since most young adults routinely use texting and online social media to communicate with each other. We find that young adults in our laboratory public goods experiment are just as adept at finding and sustaining cooperative agreements when communicating within a Facebook group and through online chat as they are in person.
AB - Direct face-to-face communication has traditionally been found to be more effective for fostering economic cooperation than any form of indirect, mediated communication. We inquire whether this is still the case since most young adults routinely use texting and online social media to communicate with each other. We find that young adults in our laboratory public goods experiment are just as adept at finding and sustaining cooperative agreements when communicating within a Facebook group and through online chat as they are in person.
U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2017.1363857
DO - 10.1080/13504851.2017.1363857
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1350-4851
VL - 25
SP - 762
EP - 767
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
IS - 11
ER -