Online Information Review: Volume 34 Issue 2

Examining e‐travel sites: an empirical study in Taiwan

Ching‐Torng Lin

For the internet to realise its full marketing potential, travel agencies need a well‐designed e‐travel site. Yet the attributes that affect customers' perceptions leading to…

A comparative study of campaign blogs and web sites: The case of Taiwan's 2008 general election

Tai‐Li Wang

The blogging phenomenon has become a primary mode of mainstream communication for the Web 2.0 era. While previous studies found that campaign web sites did not realise two‐way…

Google Scholar as a tool for discovering journal articles in library and information science

Dirk Lewandowski

The purpose of this paper is to measure the coverage of Google Scholar for Library and Information Science (LIS) journal literature as identified by a list of core LIS journals…

Guiding the content of tourism web advertisements on a search engine results page

Chin‐Feng Lin, Yu‐Hung Liao

This study seeks to focus on the following: discovering consumer preferences regarding package tours to China; revealing differences among consumers' cognition related to these…

Google and the scholar: the role of Google in scientists' information‐seeking behaviour

Hamid R. Jamali, Saeid Asadi

This paper aims to demonstrate the role that the Google general search engine plays in the information‐seeking behaviour of scientists, particularly physicists and astronomers.

Social capital in Second Life

Isto Huvila, Kim Holmberg, Stefan Ek, Gunilla Widén‐Wulff

Second Life is a user‐created online virtual world, which is a place where people with shared interests can meet and be together and share information. The purpose of this study…

Comparing sentiment expression in movie reviews from four online genres

Jin‐Cheon Na, Tun Thura Thet, Christopher S.G. Khoo

This paper aims to investigate the characteristics and differences in sentiment expression in movie review documents from four online opinion genres – blog postings, discussion…

Eigenfactor and article influence scores in the Journal Citation Reports

Péter Jacsó

This sequel to the earlier testing and evaluation of the five‐year Journal Impact Factor (JIF‐5) in the enhanced version of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (released in January…

Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print

Gillian Oliver

YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture

Brian Harmer

Blogging and Other Social Media: Exploiting the Technology and Protecting the Enterprise

David Stuart

Handbook of Research on Collaborative Learning Using Concept Mapping

Linda Cloete

Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society

Marietjie Schutte

Wikipedia – A New Community of Practice?

Judit Bar‐Ilan