Online Information Review: Volume 35 Issue 4

The influence of belonging to virtual brand communities on consumers' affective commitment, satisfaction and word‐of‐mouth advertising: The ZARA case

This paper aims to explore some of the effects of belonging to a virtual brand community on consumer behaviour. It also proposes the concept of belonging as a three‐dimensional…

Language resources used in multi‐lingual question‐answering systems

In the field of information retrieval, some multi‐lingual tools are being created to help the users to overcome the language barriers. Nevertheless, these tools are not developed…

User attitudes toward dedicated e‐book readers for reading: The effects of convenience, compatibility and media richness

Due to the rapid pace of development and innovation in information technology, the dedicated electronic book (e‐book) reader has become a new trend in reading. However, at present…

Using online collaborative tools for groups to co‐construct knowledge

The purpose of this paper is to report on and describe the use of MediaWiki and Google Docs at undergraduate level as online collaboration tools for co‐constructing knowledge in…

Relevance ranking on Google: Are top ranked results really considered more relevant by the users?

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of relevance ranking on Google by comparing the system's assessment of relevance with the users' views. The…

Building a web‐snippet clustering system based on a mixed clustering method

Web‐snippet clustering has recently attracted a lot of attention as a means to provide users with a succinct overview of relevant results compared with traditional search results…

Examining the critical success factors of mobile website adoption

The purpose of this research is to examine the critical success factors of mobile web site adoption.

Video summarisation based on collaborative temporal tags

Video summarisation is one of the most active fields in content‐based video retrieval research. A new video summarisation scheme is proposed by this paper based on socially…

Interpretations and misinterpretations of scientometric data in the report of the Royal Society about the scientific landscape in 2011

This paper aims to discuss some caveats about the findings of Part 1 of the Royal Society's report from the perspective of the choice and reliability of the source base, and the…

The Allure of Mechanical Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life and the New AI

Books, Bytes and Business: The Promise of Digital Publishing

Clinical Data Mining for Physician Decision Making and Investigating Health Outcomes: Methods for Prediction and Analysis

Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest: Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment

I Found It on the Internet: Coming of Age Online (2nd ed.)

Web 2.0‐based E‐learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching