Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 75 Issue 4

Can WeChat really foster young people's civic engagement? Unraveling an underlying mechanism from the social capital theoretical perspective

Hua Pang

Building upon social capital theoretical foundation, the principal purpose of present research is to construct a conceptual research model and uncover the intricate relationships…

Facebook medical support groups: the communication privacy management perspective

Carmel Avizohar, Tali Gazit, Noa Aharony

Exploring the considerations that guide and influence members of Facebook medical support groups to disclose private information.

A semantic model to publish open source software on the web of data

Maedeh Mosharraf

The purpose of the paper is to propose a semantic model for describing open source software (OSS) in a machine–human understandable format. The model is extracted to support…

Identifying the information behavior in competitive intelligence process: a paradigm model for medical sciences universities

Narges Oraee

The purpose of this paper is to identify and design a paradigm model for universities' information acquisition behavior in competitive intelligence process.

Bridging the rural digital divide: avoiding the user churn of rural public digital cultural services

Meng Wang, Yuwen Hua, Honglei Lia Sun, Ya Chen

The user churn (UC) of rural public digital cultural services (RPDCS) indicates that rural users no longer use RPDCS or have switched to other services. The purpose of this study…

Information needs and seeking behaviors of Israeli citizens during the COVID-19 outbreak

Gal Yavetz, Noa Aharony, Yaen Yaacov Sofer

The aim of this study is to examine the information needs and information seeking behaviors of Israeli citizens during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2020…

Exploring factors affecting mobile-banking app adoption: a perspective from adaptive structuration theory

Ahsan Ali, Abdul Hameed, Muhammad Farrukh Moin, Naseer Abbas Khan

The study has two aims: first, it aimed to investigate the impact of contextual factors (such as information quality, service quality, system quality, trust in applications (app…

Exploring how social ties affect lurking behaviour in Microblog: from a role stress and social identity perspective

Yiwen Zhang, Yongqiang Sun, Wuping Lei, Nan Wang

The primary objective of this research is to explore the underlying mechanisms of social ties influencing lurking behaviour in Microblog by combing role theory and social identity…