Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 73 Issue 5

Joyful information activities in serious leisure: looking for pleasure, passion and purpose

Yazdan Mansourian

This paper provides selective findings from a broader research project on information behaviours in serious leisure. This paper focuses on the positive feelings of information…

Data literacy and the cognitive challenges of a data-rich business environment: an analysis of perceived data overload, technostress and their relationship to individual performance

Bibiana Giudice da Silva Cezar, Antônio Carlos Gastaud Maçada

Considering the cognitive challenges associated with a data-rich business environment, this research aims to investigate the relationship between data literacy (DL), perceived…

Creation, dissemination and mitigation: toward a disinformation behavior framework and model

Naresh Kumar Agarwal, Farraj Alsaeedi

This paper seeks to disambiguate the phenomenon by clarifying terms, highlighting current efforts, including the importance of critical thought and awareness, and a test for…

How do search-based and experience-based information matter in the evaluation of user satisfaction? The case of TripAdvisor

Wuqiang Liu, Hung-Pin Shih

In the context of multi-sided platforms (MSPs), the authors address the evaluation of search- and experience-based information and the effect on different components of user…

A study of Chinese college students' COVID-19-related information needs and seeking behavior

Kun Huang, Xijia Hao, Miao Guo, Jingyuan Deng, Lei Li

To better meet people's information needs under the public health crisis, this study explored the information needs and seeking behavior of college students in the context of the…

Holistic framework for evaluating and improving information security culture

Krunoslav Arbanas, Mario Spremic, Nikolina Zajdela Hrustek

The objective of this research was to propose and validate a holistic framework for information security culture evaluation, built around a novel approach, which includes…

Trends and characteristics of China's medical informatization policy from 1996 to 2020: a bibliometric analysis

Man Xu, Dan Gan, Ting Pan, Xiaohan Sun

Qualitative methods are not suitable to process high volumes of policy texts for exploring policy evolution. Therefore, it is hard to use qualitative methods to systematically…

Understanding the acceptance of the Internet of Things: an integrative theoretical approach

Ki Joon Kim, Sai Wang

Guided by the frameworks of the technology acceptance model, uses and gratifications theory and the information systems success model, this study develops and validates an…

Levels of critique in models and concepts of human information behaviour research

Reijo Savolainen

To elaborate the nature of critique presented in the models and concepts of human information behaviour (HIB) research by identifying the issues to which the critique is directed…