Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 75 Issue 1

A hierarchical topic analysis tool to facilitate digital humanities research

Chih-Ming Chen, Szu-Yu Ho, Chung Chang

This study aims to develop a hierarchical topic analysis tool (HTAT) based on hierarchical Latent Dirichelet allocation (hLDA) to support digital humanities research that is…

Does attention mechanism possess the feature of human reading? A perspective of sentiment classification task

Lei Zhao, Yingyi Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang

To understand the meaning of a sentence, humans can focus on important words in the sentence, which reflects our eyes staying on each word in different gaze time or times. Thus…

The role of senses on purchase intention in social commerce

Jao-Hong Cheng, Li-Wei Lin

This paper aims to examine how situational factors with social support affecting purchase intention in social commerce (SC). In Taiwan’s SC, the relationship between trust belief…

Users' mental models of cross-device search under controlled and autonomous motivations

Jing Dong, Ruoyang Duan, Shaobo Liang

Existing literature has elicited the external behaviors of cross-device search but not much is known about users' cognition of cross-device search. The study aims to explore how…

Website analytics for government user behavior during COVID-19 pandemic

Yu-Jung Cheng, Kuang-Hua Chen

The present study aims to clarify the following two research objectives: (1) the user behavior of government websites during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) period and (2) how…

Instagram for student learning and library promotions: a quantitative study using the 5E Instructional Model

Apple Hiu Ching Lam, Kevin K.W. Ho, Dickson K.W. Chiu

Libraries worldwide, including Hong Kong, increasingly use social media tools to introduce and promote their services and resources to users. Instagram, in particular, is used to…

Argumentative practices and patterns in debating climate change on Twitter

Antonella Foderaro, David Gunnarsson Lorentzen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate practices of argumentation on Twitter discussions about climate change.

Thousands of examining eyes: credibility, authority and validity in biodiversity citizen science data production

Björn Ekström

The purpose of this study is to contribute with knowledge about how valid research data in biodiversity citizen science are produced through information practices and how notions…

Motivations for social network site use and users' well-being: mediation of perceived social support, positive self-presentation and honest self-presentation

Wen Gao, Jianhua Wei, Yu Li, Dongxue Wang, Lele Fang

This study aimed to investigate positive associations between three main motivations (social interaction, information and entertainment) for the use of social network sites (SNSs…