Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 74 Issue 6

Institutional isomorphism and social media adoption – a study within the microenterprise context

Christian Nedu Osakwe, Juliet E. Ikhide

Until now, very little empirical research has focused on social media adoption behavior within relatively small firms, and fewer still on adoption drivers within the specific…

The maturity of open government data maturity: a multivocal literature review

Murat Tahir Çaldağ, Ebru Gökalp

The aim of this study is to provide administrators in government institutions a roadmap to achieve benefits of open government data (OGD) by reviewing and classifying studies with…

Millennials' online perceptions: the role of cultural characteristics in creating e-loyalty

Jie Li, Junaid Ul Haq, Sajjad Hussain

Millennials, a cohort of young consumers, are the primary group of shoppers via e-commerce. This study aims to identify Chinese individual cultural values in millennials and…

Influence of social support on individual health knowledge adoption in online diabetes communities: the mediating role between cognition and emotion

Haibao Zhao, Jianya Wang, Huiqing Zhang

To address the problem of how to guide and promote health knowledge adoption, based on online diabetes communities, this study explores the impact mechanism of social support on…

Evaluating transfer learning approach for detecting Arabic anti-refugee/migrant speech on social media

Djamila Mohdeb, Meriem Laifa, Fayssal Zerargui, Omar Benzaoui

The present study was designed to investigate eight research questions that are related to the analysis and the detection of dialectal Arabic hate speech that targeted African…

“A system that will do magic”: organizational perspective on the technological layer in knowledge management

Maayan Nakash, Dan Bouhnik

This study aims to give expression, for the first time, to the contemporary perceptions of knowledge management (KM) professionals regarding the technological layer in KM. From an…

A spatio-temporal emotional framework for knowledge extraction and mining in digital humanities

Jun Deng, Chuyi Zhong, Shaodan Sun, Ruan Wang

This paper aims to construct a spatio-temporal emotional framework (STEF) for digital humanities from a quantitative perspective, applying knowledge extraction and mining…

Predicting ratings of social media feeds: combining latent-factors and emotional aspects for improving performance of different classifiers

Arghya Ray, Pradip Kumar Bala, Nripendra P. Rana, Yogesh K. Dwivedi

The widespread acceptance of various social platforms has increased the number of users posting about various services based on their experiences about the services. Finding out…

The effects of topic familiarity on college students' learning search process

Yijin Chen, Yue Qiu, Hanming Lin, Yiming Zhao

This study aims to explore the influence of topic familiarity on the four stages of college students' learning search process.

Reputation, trust, and norms as mechanisms forming academic reciprocity in data sharing: an empirical test of theory of collective action

Youngseek Kim

This research investigated how biological scientists' perceived academic reputation, community trust, and norms all influence their perceived academic reciprocity, which…

The impact of gamification on the patient's engagement in the online health community

Peng Ouyang, Jian-Jun Wang, Usman Ali

Gamification has been widely implemented to improve user engagement in the online health community (OHC). While its effect on the physicians' engagement has recently been…

Online community development in the early stages: the life cycle model application to Medical Sciences Stack Exchange

Hengyi Fu, Sanghee Oh

This study aims to investigate the nature and evolution of online communities in the early stages of their life cycles. The authors analyze the topics of discussions in an online…