Online Information Review: Volume 44 Issue 1

Mobile health service adoption in China: Integration of theory of planned behavior, protection motivation theory and personal health differences

Xing Zhang, Shan Liu, Li Wang, Yajun Zhang, Jiayin Wang

Mobile health service (MHS) can provide users with convenient health services and information to reduce their medical costs from aging or other health issues. Previous studies…

Improving information spread by spreading groups

Alon Sela, Orit Milo, Eugene Kagan, Irad Ben-Gal

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel method to enhance the spread of messages in social networks by “Spreading Groups.” These sub-structures of highly connected…

Online communication of visual information: Stickers’ functions of self-expression and conspicuousness

Wen-Hsuan Lee, Yu-Hsun Lin

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the understanding of why text messages are superseded by using stickers, thus driving instant messaging software (IMS) users’ visual…

A conceptualization of factors affecting collaborative knowledge building in online environments

Samar Ghazal, Hosam Al-Samarraie, Bianca Wright

The purpose of this paper is to address the major findings of published research on the factors influencing students’ knowledge building in an online collaborative environment.

The helpfulness of online reviews: Images in review content and the facial expressions of reviewers’ avatars

Ming-Yi Chen, Ching-I Teng, Kuo-Wei Chiou

Online reviews are increasingly available for a wide range of products and services in e-commerce. Most consumers rely heavily on online reviews when making purchase decisions, so…

A comprehensive framework to rank cloud-based e-learning providers using best-worst method (BWM): A multidimensional perspective

Mona Jami Pour, Javad Mesrabadi, Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh

Today, the high cost of e-learning systems’ implementation and the difficulty of managing the infrastructures motivate educational institutions toward application of cloud-based…

Tell me who you are and I will tell you which SNS you use: SNSs participation

Tali Gazit, Noa Aharony, Yair Amichai-Hamburger

Social networking sites (SNSs) have become an essential part of our lives. The purpose of this paper is to explore how demographic variables, SNS importance, social and…

The myth of knowledge within a robust nutrition online training course

Cathy Weng, Isaac Manyonge Matere, Abirami Rathinasabapathi, Anita Zichun Chu

The purpose of this paper was to develop a predictor model for an online nutrition course on sugar reduction. The proposed model is based on health knowledge, healthy behavior…

The impact of personality in recognizing disinformation

Colleen Wolverton, David Stevens

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and quantify the effects of personality traits, as defined by the five-factor model (FFM) on an individual’s ability to detect fake…

Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

Sumeer Gul, Shazia Bashir, Shabir Ahmad Ganaie

The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of institutional repositories (IRs) in the South Asian region. The various characteristic features of IRs are studied.

“Less is more”: Mining useful features from Twitter user profiles for Twitter user classification in the public health domain

Ziqi Zhang, Georgica Bors

This work studies automated user classification on Twitter in the public health domain, a task that is essential to many public health-related research works on social media but…

How to enhance solvers’ continuance intention in crowdsourcing contest: The role of interactivity and fairness perception

Meng-Meng Wang, Jian-Jun Wang, Wan-Ning Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to explore the underlying mechanisms through which interactivity and fairness perception impart influence on solvers’ continuance intention in…

Analysis of content topics, user engagement and library factors in public library social media based on text mining

Soohyung Joo, Kun Lu, Taehun Lee

The purpose of this paper is to explore topics of Facebook posts created by public libraries using the bi-term topic model, and examine the relationships between types of topics…

Corporate disclosure via social media: a data science approach

Marian H. Amin, Ehab K.A. Mohamed, Ahmed Elragal

The purpose of this paper is to investigate corporate financial disclosure via Twitter among the top listed 350 companies in the UK as well as identify the determinants of the…

Exploring the antecedents of mobile payment service usage: Perspectives based on cost–benefit theory, perceived value, and social influences

Kuan-Yu Lin, Yi-Ting Wang, Travis K. Huang

The number of smartphone users has increased with the maturity of mobile networks, which has not only led to a new lifestyle but has also facilitated the development of mobile…