Online Information Review: Volume 47 Issue 5

Expectant, anxious and excited: the information journey of Chinese first-time mothers

Meixing Liu, Fang Xu

The purpose of this study is to explore the information needs and behaviors of Chinese first-time mothers from the perspective of information journey theory.

Hey, let's take a selfie: insights of selfie defamiliarisation in the classroom

Jeya Amantha Kumar, Paula Alexandra Silva, Sharifah Osman, Brandford Bervell

Selfie is a popular self-expression platform to visually communicate and represent individual thoughts, beliefs, and creativity. However, not much has been investigated about…

Drivers of e-government use during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Vietnam

Hoai Than Nguyen, Elaine Quintana Borazon

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted various systems that drove people to adapt to certain technologies, such as electronic government services, for daily survival and to meet…

Learning with smartphones: the acceptance of m-learning in higher education

Özlem Efiloğlu Kurt

In parallel with technological developments, mobile devices have become an important part of our daily lives. Nowadays, people, particularly generation Z, actively engage with the…

“Masks do not work”: COVID-19 misperceptions and theory-driven corrective strategies on Facebook

Porismita Borah, Sojung Kim, Ying-Chia (Louise) Hsu

One of the most prolific areas of misinformation research is examining corrective strategies in messaging. The main purposes of the current study are to examine the effects of (1…

It's the platform, stupid (-; the elitist nature of sport podcast listeners

Yair Galily, Tal Laor, Tal Samuel-Azran

Despite the ability of podcasts to bring free quality content to the masses, studies found that podcast consumption have been identified mostly with the elite class, thus…

Tweet for peace: Twitter as a medium for developing a peace discourse in the hands of the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot leaders

Christiana Karayianni, Charis Psaltis

The article examines how the two Cypriot leaders – the Greek-Cypriot community leader Nicos Anastasiades and the Turkish-Cypriot community leader Mustafa Akinci – have used their…

COVID-19 fake news among the general population: motives, sociodemographic, attitude/behavior and impacts – a systematic review

Vimala Balakrishnan, Luqman Hakim Abdul Rahman, Jia Kai Tan, Yee Sin Lee

This systematic review aims to synthesize the literature reporting the motives, sociodemographic, attitude/behavior and impacts of fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic…

Museums and communicating climate change-related issues on Facebook platforms

Dragana Bikovska, Chern Li Liew

This research examines the ways in which museums have utilised their Facebook platforms to communicate about climate and environmental-related challenges. The aim is to offer a…

Online political engagement, cognitive skills and engagement with misinformation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States

Saifuddin Ahmed, Dani Madrid-Morales, Melissa Tully

Informational use of social media facilitates political engagement. Yet, there is also evidence of the perils of frequent political engagement in misinformation propagation. This…