Online Information Review: Volume 39 Issue 1

What drives social integration in the domain of social network sites?: Examining the influences of relationship quality and stable and dynamic individual differences

Manuel J. Sánchez-Franco, Eva María Buitrago-Esquinas, Rocío Yñiguez-Ovando

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the study aims to investigate the effects of personal innovativeness and familiarity on social integration in the domain of social…

What’s App: a social capital perspective

Noa Aharony

Based on the premises of Putnam’s bridging social capital, and on Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe’s notion of maintained social capital, the purpose of this paper is to explore the…

The networked cultural diffusion of Korean wave

Weiai Wayne Xu, Ji Young Park, Han Woo Park

The purpose of this paper is to examine the diffusion of a popular Korean music video on the video-sharing web site YouTube. It applies a webometric approach in the diffusion of…

Towards an automatic user profiling system for online information sites: Identifying demographic determining factors

Javier De Andrés, Beatriz Pariente, Martin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Daniel Fernandez Lanvin

The purpose of this paper is to identify demographic differences based on how users interact with web applications. The research is needed to develop future systems able to adapt…

Argumentation-based schema matching for multiple digital libraries

Tho Thanh Quan, Xuan H. Luong , Thanh C. Nguyen, Hui Siu Cheung

Most digital libraries (DL) are now available online. They also provide the Z39.50 standard protocol which allows computer-based systems to effectively retrieve information stored…

Measuring the effectiveness of answers in Yahoo! Answers

Alton Y.K Chua, Snehasish Banerjee

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which effectiveness of answers in Yahoo! Answers, one of the largest community question answering sites (CQAs), is related…

Raising the general public’s awareness and adoption of open source software through social Q&A interactions

Namjoo Choi, Kwan Yi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the general public’s information needs concerning open source software (OSS) and OSS answerers’ motivations for sharing their knowledge of…

Metrics and social media as components of scholarly research: new developments for Online Information Review

Gary E Gorman

Reviews of recent research literature – 9

Gary E Gorman