Online Information Review: Volume 45 Issue 6

Enhancing transparency through open government data: the case of data portals and their features and capabilities

Martin Lněnička, Renata Machova, Jolana Volejníková, Veronika Linhartová, Radka Knezackova, Miloslav Hub

The purpose of this paper was to draw on evidence from computer-mediated transparency and examine the argument that open government data and national data infrastructures…

Use of social media information sources: a systematic literature review

Deepti Khatri

This paper aimed to investigate reading format preference of undergraduate students with regard to various categories of information sources and use of social media information…

Social loafing in online brand communities: the roles of personality and dehumanization

Ru-Jing Hou, Sheng-Hao Han, Yu-Dong Zhang, Chu-Bing Zhang, Kun Wang

The biggest obstacle to the sustainable development of online brand communities is social loafing. Based on 3M Hierarchical Model of Personality, this paper aims to discuss the…

An empirical approach to understanding users' fake news identification on social media

Karine Aoun Barakat, Amal Dabbous, Abbas Tarhini

During the past few years, the rise in social media use for information purposes in the absence of adequate control mechanisms has led to growing concerns about the reliability of…

Investigation on reading behaviors and cognitive outcomes of Facebook health information

Sue Yeon Syn, JungWon Yoon

This study aims to understand how college students' personal and health-related characteristics are related to their reading behaviors and cognitive outcomes of Facebook health…

Multiple co-first authors, co-corresponding authors and co-supervisors: a synthesis of shared authorship credit

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

Authorship is the ultimate status of intellectual recognition in academic publishing. Although fairly robust guidelines have already been in place for a considerable amount of…

Competitive framing, emotion and heterogeneity: framing effects on Twitter in the case of an alt-right rally

Porismita Borah

The current study has three main purposes: (1) replicate results from prior framing effects studies on social media. To do so, the study examines the influence of news frames…

Bibliometric and content analysis of the internet of things research: a social science perspective

Yee Rock Leong, Farzana Parveen Tajudeen, Wai Chung Yeong

The aim is to reveal contemporary research trends and patterns in Internet of Things (IoTs) so that social scientists who are new to the discipline may be steered towards rightful…

Online communication self-disclosure and intimacy development on Facebook: the perspective of uses and gratifications theory

Yu-Hsun Lin, My Giang Chu

Motivating users to revisit a social networking site (SNS) by developing a long-term relationship with them is critical for SNS operators to enhance market control and…