Online Information Review: Volume 42 Issue 6

Protecting privacy on the web: A study of HTTPS and Google Analytics implementation in academic library websites

Patrick O’Brien, Scott W.H. Young, Kenning Arlitsch, Karl Benedict

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which HTTPS encryption and Google Analytics services have been implemented on academic library websites, and discuss the…

Image search and retrieval problems in web search engines: A case study of Persian language writing style challenges

Yaghoub Norouzi, Hoda Homavandi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate image search and retrieval problems in selected search engines in relation to Persian writing style challenges.

Google as a political subject: the right to be forgotten debate 2014-2016

Linnéa Lindsköld

The purpose of this paper is to create knowledge on how Google and Google search are discursively constructed as a political subject suitable or not suitable for governing in the…

Social media users’ share intention and subjective well-being: An empirical study based on WeChat

Liang Ma, Xin Zhang, Xiao Yan Ding

The rise of social media has gained increasing attention in recent years; however, few studies have focused on social media users’ specific behavior and subjective well-being. To…

Factors driving continued use of online health promotion competitions: Evidence from an online weight-loss community

Xiaolong Song, Yi-Hung Liu, Jiahua Jin, Jianguo Zhao

Gamification elements have been increasingly used in online weight-loss communities to help users lose weight. The purpose of this paper is to systemically examine whether and how…

Topical evolution patterns and temporal trends of microblogs on public health emergencies: An exploratory study of Ebola on Twitter and Weibo

Lu An, Chuanming Yu, Xia Lin, Tingyao Du, Liqin Zhou, Gang Li

The purpose of this paper is to identify salient topic categories and outline their evolution patterns and temporal trends in microblogs on a public health emergency across…

Context congruity effects of online product recommendations: an eye-tracking study

Jing Luan, Zhong Yao, Yongchao Shen, Jie Xiao

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the context congruity effects of online product recommendations (PRs) by recommendation agents (RAs) influence consumers’ attention…

Mood metadata on Chinese music websites: an exploratory study with user feedback

Xiao Hu, Christy W.L. Cheong, Siwei Zhang, J. Stephen Downie

Music mood is an important metadata type on online music repositories and stream music services worldwide. Many existing studies on mood metadata have focused on music websites…

Sexual health information-seeking behavior on a social media site: predictors of best answer selection

Yong Jeong Yi

The purpose of this paper is to identify sexual health information needs and the cognitive and affective factors correlated with the best answer chosen by social Q&A users.

Predicting the success of Twitter in healthcare: A synthesis of perceived quality, usefulness and flow experience by healthcare professionals

Mohamed Gamal Aboelmaged

The purpose of this paper is to predict Twitter satisfaction by healthcare professionals through integrating constructs of Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory, quality dimensions and…

What drives internet users’ willingness to provide personal information?

Ching-Hsuan Yeh, Yi-Shun Wang, Shin-Jeng Lin, Timmy H. Tseng, Hsin-Hui Lin, Ying-Wei Shih, Yi-Hsuan Lai

Considering that users’ information privacy concerns may affect the development of e-commerce, the purpose of this paper is to explore what drives internet users’ willingness to…

Library marketing via social media: The relationships between Facebook content and user engagement in public libraries

Soohyung Joo, Namjoo Choi, Tae Hyun Baek

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore what kinds of social media content public libraries create to communicate with users online, and to examine the relationships…

Do corporate websites’ changes reflect firms’ survival?

Desamparados Blazquez, Josep Domenech, Ana Debón

The purpose of this paper is to analyze to what extent changes in corporate websites reflect firms’ survival. Since keeping a website online involves some costs, it is likely that…

A comparative study of disaster management information systems

Muhammad Masood Rafi, Tariq Aziz, Sarosh Hashmat Lodi

Disaster management information systems (DMISs) have been proposed in different parts of the world for effective response to a disaster. The purpose of this paper is to: compare…

Understanding social networking sites continuance: The perspectives of gratifications, interactivity and network externalities

Chun-Ming Chang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model to investigate the determinants of continuance intention toward social networking sites (SNSs) by integrating the…