Online Information Review: Volume 39 Issue 6

Adoption of mobile social networking sites for learning?

Choy-Har Wong, Garry Wei-Han Tan, Siew-Phaik Loke, Keng-Boon Ooi

The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that influence users’ behavioral intention (BI) to adopt mobile social networking sites (mSNS) in facilitating formal/informal…

Online information retrieval behaviour and economics of attention

Mustafa Utku Özmen

The purpose of this paper is to analyse users’ attitudes towards online information retrieval and processing. The aim is to identify the characteristics of information that better…

Motivating continued knowledge sharing in crowdsourcing: The impact of different types of visual feedback

Misook Heo, Natalie Toomey

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of system-generated visual feedback and continued contribution on individuals’ motivation to share knowledge in a…

Exploring the role of personality traits in followee recommendation

Antonela Tommasel, Alejandro Corbellini, Daniela Godoy, Silvia Schiaffino

Followee recommendation is a problem rapidly gaining importance in Twitter as well as in other micro-blogging communities. To find interesting users to follow, most recommendation…

Online word-of-mouth as a predictor of television rating

Ching-Chiang Yeh

Despite the growing importance of online word-of-mouth (WOM) with regard to television (TV) ratings, it is usually excluded from early prediction models. The purpose of this paper…

Metrics for an increasingly complicated information ecosystem

David Stuart

– The purpose of this paper is to encourage recognition of the potential impact of an increasingly complicated information ecosystem on scientometric indicators.