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Transforming entrepreneurial research: leveraging library research services and technology innovations for rapid information discovery
Varun Gupta, Chetna GuptaWith the aid of libraries, the research paper aims to assist businesses in swiftly and accurately acquiring knowledge and insights from scholarly literature to guide their…
How internet use affects personal privacy risk perception: empirical evidence from China
Xiao Zhou Liu, Shuang Ling, Ying LiuThis study aims to empirically examine the relationship between Internet use and personal privacy risk perceptions, the mediating effect of trust and the moderating effect of…
Cognition and gender differences in cyberbullying in China: an investigation of textual cues and sentimental clues
Wanqi Li, Huaxin PengCyberbullying is a globally pervasive problem and not novel in academia. Previous studies mainly focussed on the features, consequences and technological management of…
Creating a virtuous circle during a pandemic threat: netizens' resilience via information-induced psychological distance and social media approach
Chih-An Lin, Yu-Ming Hsu, Homin ChenDuring COVID-19 restrictions, people spent more time in cyberspace and consuming health-related information. An increase was also observed in mediated caring messages or…
Stories worth sharing – why do people spread news online?
Maria-Magdalena Rosu, Ana-Maria Cosmoiu, Rodica Ianole-Calin, Sandra CornoiuThe insidious proliferation of online misinformation represents a significant societal problem. With a wealth of research dedicated to the topic, it is still unclear what…
The complex information needs of Chinese parents of children with autism spectrum disorder
Zhengbiao Han, Huan Zhong, Preben HansenThis study aims to explore the information needs of Chinese parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how these needs evolve as their children develop.
Shame on you! How incivility and absence of supporting evidence in likeminded Facebook comments influence evaluations of ingroup members and online political participation
Yonghwan KimThis study examined how likeminded Facebook comments with incivility and without supporting evidence influence readers' evaluations of the commenter and online political…
Media events in an age of “cross-media”: a smartphone diary app study
Azi Lev-On, Hila Lowenstein-BarkaiAiming to explore how audience consume and produce media events in the digital, distributed and social era we live in, the paper analyzes the viewing patterns of video news items…
Understanding Shadow IT usage intention: a view of the dual-factor model
Trang NguyenDespite the growing concern about security breaches and risks emerging from Shadow IT usage, a type of information security violation committed by organizational insiders, this…
Using YouTube for corporate communication: a comparison between Chinese and American companies
Sheng YuanThe purpose of this study is to compare the communication practices of Chinese and US companies on YouTube and explores the effectiveness of different communication strategies at…
Digital divide: accessing digital technologies for firms in BOP countries
Ewuradjoa Mansa QuansahDigital technologies (DTs) are key and essential in firms and communities. Countries in low-income areas, such as Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) contexts, struggle with digital…
Introversion-extraversion and online course satisfaction
Tsahi Hayat, Tal Samuel-Azran, Shira Goldberg, Yair Amichai-HamburgerThe 2020 Coronavirus pandemic forced universities to hastily transition to eLearning on a mass scale, necessitating the identification of populations who are more challenged by…
Framework for using online social networks for sustainability awareness
Ricardo Chalmeta, Adriana M. Barbeito-CaamañoThis study aims to contribute to the field of computer systems for sustainability research. It proposes a framework for sustainability awareness using online social networks…
Employing face reading technology to study the effects of the fake news' message sidedness on consumers' emotional valence and arousal
Anat Toder Alon, Hila TaharThis study aims to investigate how message sidedness affects the impact of fake news posted on social media on consumers' emotional responses.
Gendered COVID-19 discussions on Twitter: a Norwegian case
Sanjana Arora, Jonas Debesay, Hande Eslen-ZiyaThe COVID-19 pandemic has resurfaced challenges to gender equality and gender relations both worldwide and in Norway. There have been massive public discussions on social media…
Does gamification affect knowledge-sharing behavior? The mediating role of intrinsic satisfaction needs
Yang Cai, Xiujun Li, Wendian ShiThis study employed self-determination theory (SDT) and the “Motivational affordance–Psychological outcomes–Behavioral outcomes” framework to investigate the relationship between…
The development and validation of the Indian social media addiction scale
Natasha Saqib, Faseeh AminMillions of social media users over the last two decades have become dependent on social media that has negatively affected their lives, both physically and mentally. Earlier…
Between remediating and participating: visuals of the Ford–Kavanaugh controversy on Instagram
Bimbisar IromThe study seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of the relationship between remediations and participation in new media. By lending some transparency, the analysis hopes…
The effect of social media environments on online emotional disclosure: tie strength, network size and self-reference
Xi Xu, Jing Liu, Jia Hao LiuMotivating users to self-disclose online is significant to the long-term development of social media. Therefore, research on emotional disclosure, a significant form of…
Exploring Arab researchers' research data sharing and requesting practices: a survey study
A. Subaveerapandiyan, Mohammad Amees, Lovely M. Annamma, Upasana Yadav, Kapata MushangaThis survey-based study aims to explore the research data dissemination and requesting practices of Arab researchers. It investigates the reasons, types, methods, barriers and…
There's more to news media skepticism: a path analysis examining news media literacy, news media skepticism and misinformation behaviors
Xizhu Xiao, Wenyuan YangWhile much research has examined the effect of media literacy in combatting misinformation, whether and to what extent news media literacy influences misinformation-related…
Understanding health misinformation sharing among the middle-aged or above in China: roles of social media health information seeking, misperceptions and information processing predispositions
Yulong Tang, Chen Luo, Yan SuThe ballooning health misinformation on social media raises grave concerns. Drawing upon the S-O-R (Stimulus-Organism-Response) model and the information processing literature…
The infinity vaccine war: linguistic regularities and audience engagement of vaccine debate on Twitter
Rachel X. Peng, Ryan Yang WangAs public health professionals strive to promote vaccines for inoculation efforts, fervent anti-vaccination movements are marshaling against it. This study is motived by a need…
Google Discover: uses, applications and challenges in the digital journalism of Spain, Brazil and Greece
Carlos Lopezosa, Dimitrios Giomelakis, Leyberson Pedrosa, Lluís CodinaThis paper constitutes the first academic study to be made of Google Discover as applied to online journalism.
Using online English learning resources: utilitarian and hedonic perspectives
Fan-Chen Tseng, Pei-Hsun Emma Liu, T.C. Edwin Cheng, Ching-I TengThis study intended to identify and categorize the drivers of using online English learning resources (OELR) and to understand OELR's impacts.
What motivates people to counter misinformation on social media? Unpacking the roles of perceived consequences, third-person perception and social media use
Chen Luo, Yijia Zhu, Anfan ChenDrawing upon the third-person effect (TPE) theory, this study focuses on two types of misinformation countering intentions (i.e. simple correction and correction with…
The utilitarian and hedonic value of immersive experiences on WeChat: examining a dual mediation path leading to users' stickiness and the role of social norms
Inma Rodríguez-Ardura, Antoni Meseguer-Artola, Qian FuAn integrative model that predicts users' stickiness to WeChat is built. In the proposed model, perceived value plays a dual mediating role in the causal pathway from users'…
How social are open-access debates: a follow-up study of tweeters' sentiments
Hajar SotudehDespite the widespread studies on the attitudes about OA, there exists little comparative evidence about the opinions of author and non-author parties at a global level in a…
Exploring the psychometric properties of the digital citizenship scale among Indian students
Shivangi Verma, Naval GargPrevious studies highlighted a shortage of scale to measure digital citizenship among Indians. Accordingly, this study examined the psychometric properties of Jones and…
Examining the impacts of social media on the psychological well-being in a patriarchal culture: a study of women in Pakistan
Iffat Ali Aksar, Amira Firdaus, Jiankun Gong, Saadia Anwar PashaThe unstoppable and exponential growth of social media use has given rise to concerns about the consequent effects on users. Among the major concerns are the psychological…
Towards a taxonomy of research areas in open government data
Ahmad Nadzri Mohamad, Allan Sylvester, Jennifer Campbell-MeierThis study aimed to develop a taxonomy of research areas in open government data (OGD) through a bibliometric mapping tool and a qualitative analysis software.
Effect of information literacy on lifelong learning, creativity, and work performance among journalists
Haleema Saadia, Muhammad Asif NaveedThis research examined the effects of information literacy on lifelong learning, creativity, and work performance among journalists in Pakistan.
Digital natives and streaming TV platforms: an integrated perspective to explain continuance usage of over-the-top services
Felix Friederich, Ramon Palau-Saumell, Jorge Matute, Jan-Hinrich MeyerDigital natives constitute a substantial part of consumers nowadays. Yet, a theoretical understanding of the factors driving their engagement with new-age digital services is…
Modeling the acceptance and resistance to use mobile contact tracing apps: a developing nation perspective
Michael Adu Kwarteng, Alex Ntsiful, Christian Nedu Osakwe, Kwame Simpe OforiThis study proposes and validates an integrated theoretical model involving the theory of planned behavior (TPB), health belief model (HBM), personal norms and information privacy…
When WhatsApp changed its privacy policy: explaining WhatsApp discontinuation using an enablers-inhibitors' perspective
Ali Farooq, Laila Dahabiyeh, Yousra JavedThe purpose of this paper is to understand the factors that enable and inhibit WhatsApp users' discontinuance intention (DI) following the change in WhatsApp's privacy policy.
The impact of social media marketing activities in the museum industry
Nuan Luo, Zhaohai Zhu, Yuan Ni, Li Haodong, Jian ZhangThe social media expands the scope of museum marketing. Through the social media marketing, visitors get a rich and colorful visual experience, and the museum can quickly and…
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