Online Information Review: Volume 42 Issue 3

Semantic Disclosure Control: semantics meets data privacy

Montserrat Batet, David Sánchez

To overcome the limitations of purely statistical approaches to data protection, the purpose of this paper is to propose Semantic Disclosure Control (SeDC): an inherently semantic…

How do social network sites support product users’ knowledge construction? A study of LinkedIn

Xuguang Li, Andrew Cox, Zefeng Wang

Social network sites are emerging as a popular communication tool for knowledge sharing and construction. LinkedIn, which concentrates on professional networking, is reported to…

Exploring the determinants of fundraisers’ voluntary information disclosure on crowdfunding platforms: A risk-perception perspective

Tao Wang, Xiaowei Liu, Minghui Kang, Haichao Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors affecting fundraisers’ voluntary information disclosure on crowdfunding platforms based on risk-perception theory (RPT).

Gender bias in machine learning for sentiment analysis

Mike Thelwall

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether machine learning induces gender biases in the sense of results that are more accurate for male authors or for female authors…

Implications of integrating e-leisure constraints and means-end hierarchies of young people’s perceptions toward video-sharing websites

Chin Feng Lin, Chen Su Fu

The purpose of this paper is, based on leisure constraints and means-end theories, to identify the e-leisure constraints of using the video-sharing websites/apps; demonstrate how…

Network characteristics matter in politics on Facebook: evidence from a US national survey

Yanqin Lu, Jae Kook Lee, Eunyi Kim

Facebook has been identified as a primary source of political information by a majority (63 percent) of its users. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between…

Study of the accessibility of a sample of scientific electronic journal publishing platforms: Changes from 2011 to 2016

Carolina Navarro-Molina, Juan-Miguel López-Gil, Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent, Juan-Carlos Valderrama-Zurián

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the degree of accessibility of a set of electronic journals that are hosted on widely used online scientific journal publishing platforms…

Open bibliometrics and undiscovered public knowledge

David Stuart

The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of the potential of open bibliometrics, especially for the discovery of previously undiscovered public knowledge.

Online investigation of users’ attitudes using automatic question answering

Chengzhi Zhang, Qingqing Zhou

With the development of the internet, huge numbers of reviews are generated, disseminated, and shared on e-commerce and social media websites by internet users. These reviews…