Online Information Review: Volume 46 Issue 7

The role of libraries in the fake news era: a survey of information scientists and library science students in Greece

Paraskevi El. Skarpa, Emmanouel Garoufallou

Currently, knowing where to seek for reliable information may be one of the most important human skills. Data reliability is a matter of debate. The online dissemination of…

Exploring the factors influencing continuous usage intention of academic social network sites

Zhiwei Yang, Qingshan Zhou, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Yuqi Wang

Academic social network site (ASNS) is a new form of academic service in the social media age, and the study of ASNS user behavior is of great significance to academic librarians…

WELMSD – word embedding and language model based sarcasm detection

Pradeep Kumar, Gaurav Sarin

Sarcasm is a sentiment in which human beings convey messages with the opposite meanings to hurt someone emotionally or condemn something in a witty manner. The difference between…

Meta-search based approach for Arabic information retrieval

Souheila Ben Guirat, Ibrahim Bounhas, Yahya Slimani

The semantic relations between Arabic word representations were recognized and widely studied in theoretical studies in linguistics many centuries ago. Nonetheless, most of the…

Surveying research data-sharing practices in US social sciences: a knowledge infrastructure-inspired conceptual framework

Wei Jeng, Daqing He

This study develops a conceptual framework and a series of instruments for capturing researchers' data-sharing practices in the social sciences, by synergizing the theory of…

#CoronaVirus and public health: the role of social media in sharing health information

Ammina Kothari, Kimberly Walker, Kelli Burns

The purpose of this study is to examine how factual information and misinformation are being shared on Twitter by identifying types of social media users who initiate the…

The disinformation warfare: how users use every means possible in the political battlefield on social media

Nili Steinfeld

The study aims to investigate the predictors of engaging in combat against the spread of misinformation and disinformation online, and of actively sharing disinformation by users…

Mainstream, on-demand and social media consumption and trust in government handling of the COVID crisis

Tal Laor, Sabina Lissitsa

This study examined the association between media consumers' attitudes toward COVID-19-related content on mainstream, on-demand and social media and trust in the government's…

Understanding the “infodemic”: social media news use, homogeneous online discussion, self-perceived media literacy and misperceptions about COVID-19

Yan Su, Porismita Borah, Xizhu Xiao

This study has three main purposes: (1) to investigate the association between social media news use and misperceptions about COVID-19; (2) to explore the mediating role of…

Effects of social capital of social networking site on social identity and continuous participant behavior

Edward Shih-Tse Wang, Hung-Chou Lin, Yu-Ting Liao

The paper focuses on social capital as the characteristic of social groups that promote coordination; moreover, social identity plays a key role in the construction of group…