TY  - JOUR
TI  - Reward Mechanisms in COVID-19 Tracking Apps and Its Impact on the Voluntary Participation of the Public in Sustainable Innovation Processes
AB  - 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 andscientific processes that create public awareness and responsibilities according to scientific needs. Foreffective 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 RatingScale (MARS) approach for assessment, COVID-19 tracking apps (CTAs) of different countries are analysedwith 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 thefundamental need for the ethical use of CTAs. Accordingly, patterns of voluntariness are examined inthe context of legal, ethical privacy and security policies of selected CTAs. In this context, this paper willprovide categories and criteria for CTA usage and its impact on citizen engagement in the Quintuple Helixcollaboration process aiming to get insights into features and functionalities needed in CTAs and increasedvoluntary use of the public.
AU  - Peschke, Seldag
AU  - Gümüş Ağca, Yasemin
AU  - Seyfafjehi, Seyedehshahrzad
AU  - AYDOĞDU, Yasin
AU  - DÜNDAR, IRMAK
AU  - Peschke, Lutz
DO  - 10.17829/turcom.1019006
PY  - 2022
JO  - Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi (Online)
VL  - 0
IS  - 39
SN  - 2630-6220
SP  - 54
EP  - 72
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/1096707
ER  -