Online Information Review: Volume 40 Issue 7

Hashtags and information virality in networked social movement: Examining hashtag co-occurrence patterns

Rong Wang, Wenlin Liu, Shuyang Gao

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the use of Twitter hashtag as a strategy to enhance the visibility and symbolic power of social movement-related information. It…

Computational modeling of Weibo user influence based on information interactive network

Dingguo Yu, Nan Chen, Xu Ran

With the development and application of mobile internet access, social media represented by Weibo, WeChat, etc. has become the main channel for information release and sharing…

The mediating role of sense of virtual community

Hsin Hsin Chang, Pei-Hsuan Hsieh, Chen Su Fu

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive model to illustrate the mediating role of sense of virtual community (SOVC) in virtual communities of practices (VCoPs)…

Tweets speak louder than leaders and masses: An analysis of tweets about the Jammu and Kashmir elections 2014

Sumeer Gul, Iram Mahajan, Nahida Tun Nisa, Tariq Ahmad Shah, Jan Asifa, Suhail Ahmad

Twitter as a social tool allows people to express their views, emotions or communicate information within brevity of 140 character limit. It has provided an opportunity to…

A user’s personality prediction approach by mining network interaction behaviors on Facebook

Tsung-Yi Chen, Meng-Che Tsai, Yuh-Min Chen

For an enterprise, it is essential to win as many customers as possible. The key to successfully winning customers is often determined by understanding the personality…

Conceptualizing task affordance in online crowdsourcing context

Yuxiang (Chris) Zhao, Qinghua Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to present a new concept – task affordance in crowdsourcing context, and build it as a theoretical lens to help the authors reconfigure the artifacts…

Influence of knowledge transfer on SNS community cohesiveness

Changsu Kim, Minghui Kang, Tao Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether social networking site (SNS) communities benefit from collective knowledge and collaboration, which represent a portfolio of…

Searching and sourcing online academic literature: Comparisons of doctoral students and junior faculty in education

Ching-Ting Hsin, Ying-Hsueh Cheng, Chin-Chung Tsai

The purpose of this paper is to explore educational researchers’ online literature searching and sourcing strategies.

Status quo bias in information system adoption: a meta-analytic review

Cheng-Chieh Wu

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the influence of status quo on information system (IS) adoption. Organizations often substantially allocate resources to leverage existing…

Recognition of side effects as implicit-opinion words in drug reviews

Monireh Ebrahimi, Amir Hossein Yazdavar, Naomie Salim, Safaa Eltyeb

Many opinion-mining systems and tools have been developed to provide users with the attitudes of people toward entities and their attributes or the overall polarities of…

Session identification techniques used in web usage mining: A systematic mapping of scholarly literature

Bahjat Fatima, Huma Ramzan, Sohail Asghar

The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the state-of-the-art session identification techniques used in web usage mining (WUM) process in terms of their limitations…

Construction and application of specialty-term information for document re-ranking

Shihchieh Chou, Zhangting Dai

Conventional studies mainly classify a term’s appearance in the retrieved documents as either relevant or irrelevant for application. The purpose of this paper is to differentiate…

User communication behavior in mobile communication software

Kuan-Yu Lin

The purpose of this paper is to develop a research model examining users’ perceived needs-technology fit of mobile communication software through motivational needs and…

The influence of EWOM characteristics on online repurchase intention: Mediating roles of trust and perceived usefulness

Jorge Matute, Yolanda Polo-Redondo, Ana Utrillas

With the expansion of internet as a tool for exchanging information, companies include in their websites a virtual space to share information among users. The purpose of this…