Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze contemporary uses and gratifications (U&G) of the media, focusing on the differences between emergency and ordinary times, and between media consumers in the border region and in the home front during the Israel-Gaza War (2014)....

Purpose: The study examines the impact of presence, synchronicity of exposure and other variables on allocative decisions reached following a participatory budgeting event. Design/methodology/approach: The study analyzes the distributive decisions reached following a participatory budgeting...

Do communication and identification necessarily inhibit trust? Or can they diminish trust- particularly in situations when communication discloses certain hitherto unknown cues about one's interlocutors? To study this question I use a simple lab experiment, where people play first-movers in...

How can we account for the accomplishments of online collaborations? What motivates people to contribute to them? This exploratory study catalogues the features conducive to the success of such collaborations, focusing on the reduced costs of both individual contributions and the social...

One of the most consistent findings in experimental studies of social dilemmas is the positive influence of face-to-face (FtF) communication on cooperation. The FtF "communication effect" has been recently explained in terms of a "focus theory of norms": successful communication focuses agents...