Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 50 Issue 4

The adoption of teaching assistant robots: a technology acceptance model approach

Eunil Park, Sang Jib Kwon

Based on rapid improvements in telecommunications and wireless networks with extensive educational contents, numerous studies have been conducted to improve our educational…

Examining social capital on mobile SNS: the effect of social support

Tao Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social support on social capital in mobile social networking sites.

Open data framework for sustainable assessment of project-based learning experiences

Ignacio Traverso-Ribón, Antonio Balderas-Alberico, Juan-Manuel Dodero, Ivan Ruiz-Rube, Manuel Palomo-Duarte

In a project-based learning experience, the detailed monitoring of the activities in which team members participate can be useful to evaluate their work. However, the project…

Providing open access to PhD theses: visibility and citation benefits

Tránsito Ferreras-Fernández, Francisco García-Peñalvo, José A. Merlo-Vega, Helena Martín-Rodero

The purpose of this paper is to report the benefits of scientific communication model of open access (OA) repositories to e-theses. Specifically, the study focusses on the…

Identifying the uses of mobile technology among Library and Information Science undergraduate students

Evgenia Vassilakaki, Valentini Moniarou-Papaconstantinou, Emmanouel Garoufallou

Mobile technology has redefined the way people communicate and interact. In education, the number of academic institutions developing and offering mobile information services is…

Building loyalty in e-commerce: Towards a multidimensional trust-based framework for the case of China

Lin Xiao, Zixiu Guo, John D’Ambra, Bin Fu

Although recent years have shown increasing popularity of e-commerce worldwide, there is still a lack of studies comprehensively exploring trust issue in e-commerce. Based on…

Privacy and trust in Facebook photo sharing: age and gender differences

Aqdas Malik, Kari Hiekkanen, Marko Nieminen

The purpose of this paper is to examine gender and age differences regarding various aspects of privacy, trust, and activity on one of the most popular Facebook activity – “photo…

Determining social media impact on the politics of developing countries using social network analytics

Collins Udanor, Stephen Aneke, Blessing Ogechi Ogbuokiri

The purpose of this paper is to use the Twitter Search Network of the Apache NodeXL data discovery tool to extract over 5,000 data from Twitter accounts that twitted, re-twitted…