Internet Research: Volume 34 Issue 2

Affect and information technology use: the impact of state affect on cognitions and IT use

Michael Dinger, Julie T. Wade, Steven Dinger, Michelle Carter, Jason Bennett Thatcher

This paper investigates the dynamics between state affect and trusting cognitive beliefs on post-adoptive information technology (IT) use behaviors in the form of intention to…

Understanding employees' perceptions of SETA events: the role of pedagogical and communication approaches

Siqi Hu, Carol Hsu, Zhongyun Zhou

Security education, training and awareness (SETA) programs are the key to addressing “people problems” in information systems (IS) security. Contrary to studies using conventional…

Working too much in China's tech industry: corporate social advocacy as a crisis response strategy to issue-based opinion polarization

Yingru Ji, Chang Wan

Once a corporate crisis is entangled with a social issue, how consumers make sense of the crisis can be impacted by issue-based opinion polarization. This study investigates the…

The role of institutional and self in the formation of trust in artificial intelligence technologies

Lai-Wan Wong, Garry Wei-Han Tan, Keng-Boon Ooi, Yogesh Dwivedi

The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in travel and tourism has received much attention in the wake of the pandemic. While societal adoption of AI has…

The effects of social media use and consumer engagement on physician online return: evidence from Weibo

Yabin Yang, Xitong Guo, Tianshi Wu, Doug Vogel

Social media facilitates the communication and the relationship between healthcare professionals and patients. However, limited research has examined the role of social media in a…

Effects of social media usage on exploratory innovation, exploitative innovation and organizational agility: the moderating role of learning goal orientation

Kai Zhang, Hefu Liu, Yang Li, Xia Wu

The purpose of this study is to examine the underlying mechanisms of exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation between social media usage and organizational agility, and…

Cognition or interaction? Mediating factors influencing online group open collaboration

Min Zuo, Jiangnan Qiu, Jingxian Wang

Online collaboration in today's world is a topic of genuine interest to Internet researchers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of group knowledge heterogeneity…

Working in a smart home environment: examining the impact on productivity, well-being and future use intention

Davit Marikyan, Savvas Papagiannidis, Omer F. Rana, Rajiv Ranjan

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a big impact on organisations globally, leaving organisations with no choice but to adapt to the new reality of remote…

Mind over matter: how biased perceptions of political knowledge influence selection and evaluation of political YouTube channels

Heeseung Yu, Yuhosua Ryoo, Eunkyoung Han

In the face of increasing political polarization worldwide, this study explores whether people create biased perceptions of political knowledge and how this affects their…

Hue, brightness, saturation, and caption description: which attributes impact listing preferences on digital accommodation platforms?

Shixuan Fu, Xusen Cheng, Anil Bilgihan, Fevzi Okumus

Images and caption descriptions serve as important visual stimuli that influence consumer preferences; therefore, the current study focuses on property images and captions…

The value of time together: a longitudinal investigation of mentor-protégé interactions in an online game

Dmitri Williams, Sukyoung Choi, Paul L. Sparks, Joo-Wha Hong

The study aims to determine the outcomes of mentorship in an online game system, as well as the characteristics of good mentors.

Do human values find genuine expression on social media platforms? The influence of human values on millennials' social media activities

Angeliki Nikolinakou, Joe Phua

Social media has the potential to enable exchange of diverse opinions, foster dialogue on important social issues and exert positive influence on stakeholders and society…

Disentangling the antecedents of rational versus emotional negative electronic word of mouth on a peer-to-peer accommodation platform

Chaofan Yang, Yongqiang Sun, Nan Wang, Xiao-Liang Shen

Although extant studies have investigated the antecedents of negative electronic word of mouth (eWOM), they treated it as a unidimensional concept without classification. To…

ICT-based training and education in volunteer sports communities: an action design research project with soccer referees during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sven Laumer, Christian Maier

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the beliefs and attitudes toward the use of information and communication technology (ICT). The…

Public information sharing in enterprise social networks: a communication privacy management perspective

Yu Wang, Daqing Zheng, Yulin Fang

The advancement of enterprise social networks (ESNs) facilitates information sharing but also presents the challenge of managing information boundaries. This study aims to explore…

The influence of technology affordance on addictive use in MMOGs: from the perspective of virtual-domain perfectionism

Yijing Xun, Xiabing Zheng, Matthew Lee, Feng Yang

The rise and popularity of digitalization have made the addictive use in the virtual world more common, which has aroused wide attention from academia and public. Uncovering the…