Research Article

Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes

Number: 39 April 29, 2022
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Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is the first pandemic after smartphones penetrated society globally. Consequently, there are not sufficient experiences and understanding of how to engage citizens in information and scientific processes that create public awareness and responsibilities according to scientific needs. For effective measures aiming to sustain the pandemic crisis, an efficient collaboration of academia, economy, culture-based, and media-based public and politics is crucial. With help of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) approach for assessment, COVID-19 tracking apps (CTAs) of different countries are analysed with help of a qualitative content analysis according to their reward mechanisms. The analysis includes correlation different rewards to voluntary participation. The MARS approach consists of engagement, functionality aesthetics and information quality. The protection of voluntariness is understood as the fundamental need for the ethical use of CTAs. Accordingly, patterns of voluntariness are examined in the context of legal, ethical privacy and security policies of selected CTAs. In this context, this paper will provide categories and criteria for CTA usage and its impact on citizen engagement in the Quintuple Helix collaboration process aiming to get insights into features and functionalities needed in CTAs and increased voluntary use of the public.

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Supporting Institution

Horizon 2020 research and innovation program by the European Union

Project Number

grant agreement No 101006316

Thanks

This paper is based on research which is executed within the scope of the project “PandeVITA - Pandemic Virus Trace Application for the Effective Knowledge Transfer Between Science and Society Inside the Quadruple Helix Collaboration” The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101006316. Best regards, Lutz Peschke

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Communication and Media Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

April 29, 2022

Submission Date

November 5, 2021

Acceptance Date

March 24, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Number: 39

APA
Peschke, L., Güneş Peschke, S., Gümüş Ağca, Y., Seyfafjehi, S., Dündar, I., & Aydoğdu, Y. (2022). Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 39, 54-72. https://doi.org/10.17829/turcom.1019006
AMA
1.Peschke L, Güneş Peschke S, Gümüş Ağca Y, Seyfafjehi S, Dündar I, Aydoğdu Y. Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes. TURCOM. 2022;(39):54-72. doi:10.17829/turcom.1019006
Chicago
Peschke, Lutz, Seldağ Güneş Peschke, Yasemin Gümüş Ağca, Seyedehshahrzad Seyfafjehi, Irmak Dündar, and Yasin Aydoğdu. 2022. “Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes”. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 39: 54-72. https://doi.org/10.17829/turcom.1019006.
EndNote
Peschke L, Güneş Peschke S, Gümüş Ağca Y, Seyfafjehi S, Dündar I, Aydoğdu Y (April 1, 2022) Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi 39 54–72.
IEEE
[1]L. Peschke, S. Güneş Peschke, Y. Gümüş Ağca, S. Seyfafjehi, I. Dündar, and Y. Aydoğdu, “Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes”, TURCOM, no. 39, pp. 54–72, Apr. 2022, doi: 10.17829/turcom.1019006.
ISNAD
Peschke, Lutz - Güneş Peschke, Seldağ - Gümüş Ağca, Yasemin - Seyfafjehi, Seyedehshahrzad - Dündar, Irmak - Aydoğdu, Yasin. “Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes”. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi. 39 (April 1, 2022): 54-72. https://doi.org/10.17829/turcom.1019006.
JAMA
1.Peschke L, Güneş Peschke S, Gümüş Ağca Y, Seyfafjehi S, Dündar I, Aydoğdu Y. Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes. TURCOM. 2022;:54–72.
MLA
Peschke, Lutz, et al. “Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes”. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 39, Apr. 2022, pp. 54-72, doi:10.17829/turcom.1019006.
Vancouver
1.Lutz Peschke, Seldağ Güneş Peschke, Yasemin Gümüş Ağca, Seyedehshahrzad Seyfafjehi, Irmak Dündar, Yasin Aydoğdu. Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes. TURCOM. 2022 Apr. 1;(39):54-72. doi:10.17829/turcom.1019006

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