Online Information Review: Volume 47 Issue 7

Reviewing the critical challenges that influence the adoption of the e-learning system in higher educational institutions in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic

Fadi Abdelfattah, Abrar Mohammed Al Alawi, Khalid Abed Dahleez, Ayman El Saleh

This paper aims to review the critical challenges and factors influencing the successful adoption of electronic learning (e-learning) systems in higher educational institutions…

Viewing advertisements in social networks: the attitude-intention inconsistency revisited

Cuong Hung Nguyen, Hung Vu Nguyen, Theu Kim Doan, Minh Hoang Nguyen, Mai Thi Thu Le

This study provides a framework to explain the attitude–intention gap in viewing advertisements in social networks. Going beyond the literal and evaluative inconsistency issues in…

A systematic review of socio-technical gender bias in AI algorithms

Paula Hall, Debbie Ellis

Gender bias in artificial intelligence (AI) should be solved as a priority before AI algorithms become ubiquitous, perpetuating and accentuating the bias. While the problem has…

Political ideology and differences in seeking COVID-19 information on the internet: examining the comprehensive model of information seeking

Xianlin Jin

Guided by the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS), this article identifies significant predictors that impact individuals seeking COVID-19 information. People with…

Citation pattern of open access and toll-based research articles in the field of biological and physical sciences: a comparative study

Zahid Ashraf Wani, Tariq Shafi Shah

The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between the access mode of research articles [Open Access (OA) and Toll-Access (TA)] and their subsequent citation…

Students' attitude and learning effectivenes for two types of podcasts in MBA course

Golan Carmi

The purpose of this research is to inspect the perceptions of MBA students regarding learning through podcasts. The author's goals are to reveal the students' attitudes toward the…

The moderating role of narcissism in predicting the behavior intention of the Palestinian university students towards adopting the new Facebook currency

Samir Daoud Baidoun, Mohammed Zedan Salem, Ralf Wagner

This paper aims to identify the factors affecting university students’ behavioral intentions towards adopting the new Facebook currency while controlling for the direct and the…

The funding effect on citation and social attention: the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a case study

Pablo Dorta-González, María Isabel Dorta-González

Academic citation and social attention measure different dimensions in the impact of research results. The authors quantify the contribution of funding to both indicators…

Are memes selfish? How Internet memes reflect crisis–Covid-19 pandemic in Israel

Tal Laor

The paper aims to explore, using an analysis of the three components of memes content, form and stance – whether and how the memes offer a broad picture of a specific society…

Enhancing social capital and reciprocity through community news media during COVID-19: a study of video volunteers

Gyanesh Govindarajan, K.A. Geetha, Santosh K. Patra, T.T. Sreekumar

This article attempts to highlight the defining role that community media engagements play during times of the pandemic. It is argued that the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic forced…

An experimental study of the effectiveness of fact checks: interplay of evidence type, veracity and news agreement

Stephanie Jean Tsang, Jingwei Zheng, Wenshu Li, Mistura Adebusola Salaudeen

Given the rapid growth in efforts on misinformation correction, the study aims to test how evidence type and veracity interact with news agreement on the effectiveness of…