Online Information Review: Volume 42 Issue 5

Retweet or like? That is the question

Eva Lahuerta-Otero, Rebeca Cordero-Gutiérrez, Fernando De la Prieta-Pintado

Due to the size and importance of social media, user-generated content analysis is becoming a key factor for companies and brands across the world. By using Twitter messages’…

Sentiment annotations for reviews: an information quality perspective

Heng-Li Yang, August F.Y. Chao

The purpose of this paper is to propose sentiment annotation at sentence level to reduce information overloading while reading product/service reviews in the internet.

Board structure and corporate disclosure via social media: an empirical study in the UK

Mohamed A.K. Basuony, Ehab K.A. Mohamed, Khaled Samaha

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of board structure on voluntary corporate disclosure via social media among the top 150 companies listed on the London Stock…

An empirical investigation on disclosure about mobile banking on bank websites

Fernanda Francielle de Oliveira Malaquias, Yujong Hwang

The purpose of this paper is to identify the level of disclosure about mobile banking (MB) on bank websites.

The credibility and attribution of online reviews: Differences between high and low product knowledge consumers

Jyh-Shen Chiou, Cheng-Chieh Hsiao, Tien-Yi Chiu

To understand the effectiveness of electronic word of mouth, the purpose of this paper is to examine how high- vs low-knowledge consumers judge and attribute the credibility of…

How does gender swapping impact online gamer loyalty? The perspective of interdependence theory

Fan-Chen Tseng, Ching-Ter Chang, Hsing-Chen Lee, Ching-I Teng

Gender swapping – when gamers choose avatars of the opposite gender to their own – is a common feature of online gaming behavior, and recent studies have explored the reasons for…

Can microblogs motivate involvement in civic and political life? Examining uses, gratifications and social outcomes among Chinese youth

Hua Pang

The purpose of this paper is to explore the Chinese microblog users’ psychological motivations and the association between users’ motivations and their offline civic and political…

Measuring the interdisciplinarity of Big Data research: a longitudinal study

Jiming Hu, Yin Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to measure the degree of interdisciplinary collaboration in Big Data research based on the co-occurrences of subject categories using Stirling’s…

Online advertorial attributions on consumer responses: materialism as a moderator

Hsin Hsin Chang, Kit Hong Wong, Tsun Wei Chu

Based on the Mehrabian–Russell theory, the purpose of this paper is to view the attributes of advertorial information as a stimulus in an online environment to examine the…

Is the equalization/normalization lens dead? Social media campaigning in US congressional elections

Jason Gainous, Andrew Segal, Kevin Wagner

Early information technology scholarship centered on the internet’s potential to be a democratizing force was often framed using an equalization/normalization lens arguing that…