Crafting Moral Infrastructures: How Nonprofits Use Facebook to Survive
dc.contributor.author | Hemphill, Libby | |
dc.contributor.author | Million, A.J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Erickson, Ingrid | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-28T18:42:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-28T18:42:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-08-28 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/145477 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present findings from interviews with 23 individuals affiliated with non-profit organizations (NPOs) to understand how they deploy information and communication technologies (ICTs) in civic engagement efforts. Existing research about NPO ICT use is largely critical, but we did not find evidence that NPOs fail to use tools effectively. Rather, we detail how various ICT use on the part of NPOs intersects with unique affordance perceptions and adoption causes. Overall, we find that existing theories about technology choice (e.g., task-technology fit, uses and gratifications) do not explain the assemblages NPOs describe. We argue that NPOs fashion infrastructures in accordance with their moral economy frameworks rather than selecting tools based on utility. Together, the rhetorics of infrastructure and moral economies capture the motivations and constraints our participants expressed and challenge how prevailing theories of ICT usage describe the non-profit landscape. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1822228. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | * |
dc.subject | non-profit organizations | en_US |
dc.subject | social media | en_US |
dc.subject | information infrastructure | en_US |
dc.subject | moral economies | en_US |
dc.title | Crafting Moral Infrastructures: How Nonprofits Use Facebook to Survive | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Information, School of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | ICPSR | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Syracuse University | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145477/1/Hemphill-Million-Erickson-Crafting-moral-infrastructures.pdf | |
dc.description.mapping | 56 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-3793-7281 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-8909-153X | |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of Hemphill-Million-Erickson-Crafting-moral-infrastructures.pdf : Main article | |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Million, Anthony; 0000-0002-8909-153X | en_US |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Hemphill, Libby; 0000-0002-3793-7281 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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