Online Information Review: Volume 43 Issue 7

Understanding social media users’ unfollow intentions: take WeChat subscriptions as an example

Ge Zhang, Liang Ma, Xin Zhang, Xiao Yan Ding, Yi Ping Yang

An increasing number of users join and become immersed in WeChat official accounts, but many users quit using these services as well. Nevertheless, most of the previous studies…

Using social media to explore regional cuisine preferences in China

Chengzhi Zhang, Zijing Yue, Qingqing Zhou, Shutian Ma, Zi-Ke Zhang

Food plays an important role in every culture around the world. Recently, cuisine preference analysis has become a popular research topic. However, most of these studies are…

Collaborative query reformulation in tourism information search

Jia Tina Du, Abu Shamim Mohammad Arif, Preben Hansen

Collaborative information search (CIS) is a growing and significant research area. Query formulation and reformulation is an important search strategy in information search…

Shocking secret you won’t believe! Emotional arousal in clickbait headlines: An eye-tracking analysis

Supavich (Fone) Pengnate

Clickbait has become a popular strategy for attracting online users by enticing them to follow the link to a particular website to read further. The purpose of this paper is to…

Unpackaging stakeholders’ motivation for participating in the social media of the higher education sector: A comparison of the European and US experience

Laura Saraite-Sariene, María del Mar Gálvez-Rodríguez, Arturo Haro-de-Rosario, Carmen Caba-Perez

Increasingly, universities are adopting social media as a strategy to improve their competitive advantage. However, little is known of whether or not stakeholders are actually…

Examining differences among book reviews from various online platforms

Chengzhi Zhang, Tiantian Tong, Yi Bu

Websites have their own features in aspect preference (e.g. the relative importance platforms place on product aspects in product evaluation). The purpose of this paper is to…

A comparative analysis of Twitter users who Tweeted on psychology and political science journal articles

Yanfen Zhou, Jin-Cheon Na

The purpose of this paper is to understand the similarities and differences between the Twitter users who tweeted on journal articles in psychology and political science…

Information and knowledge management in higher education institutions: the Polish case

Marek Deja

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the problem of information and knowledge management (IKM) in higher education institutions. The research aims to determine the way in which…

The role of flow for mobile advergaming effectiveness

Sara Catalán, Eva Martínez, Elaine Wallace

Based on flow theory, the purpose of this paper is to explain why the use of mobile advergames can enhance players’ brand perceptions and purchase intentions, as well as the…

Factors of trust in data reuse

Ayoung Yoon, Yoo Young Lee

The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively examine factors of trust in data reuse from the reusers’ perspectives.

@Digital libraries: harnessing Twitter to build online communities

Iris Xie, Jennifer A. Stevenson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the types of roles that Twitter played in digital libraries (DLs) and their relationships in building DL online communities.

Developing a mobile SNS addiction scale utilizing factor analysis and the Rasch model

Xinghua Wang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mobile social networking service (SNS) addiction scale to measure respondents’ addiction levels.

Why pay? An empirical study of paid-for SQA sites in China

Faming Zhang, Qifan Hu, Xupeng Fang

The once failed paid-for social question and answer (SQA) service is in full swing in China. The traditional profit model, which typically relies on advertising, is abandoned in…

Privacy in the context of reciprocity: conceptualizing users’ choices

Ashraf Khalil, Huma Zia, Salam Abdallah

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of reciprocity in privacy settings on the compromises and losses in utility encountered by users. The authors base our study…

@Houstonpolice: an exploratory case of Twitter during Hurricane Harvey

Seungwon Yang, Brenton Stewart

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Houston Police Department (HPD)’s public engagement efforts using Twitter during Hurricane Harvey, which was a large-scale urban crisis…

Conceptualizing self-documentation

Tim Gorichanaz

Self-documentation is an increasingly common phenomenon, but it is not yet well understood. The purpose of this paper is to provide a philosophical framework for analyzing…

How can WeChat contribute to psychosocial benefits? Unpacking mechanisms underlying network size, social capital and life satisfaction among sojourners

Hua Pang

The purpose of this paper is to systematically unpack whether and how WeChat network size is correlated with perceived social capital and life satisfaction among Chinese overseas…