Online Information Review: Volume 40 Issue 3

The effect of customers’ perceived benefits on virtual brand community loyalty

Minjung Kang, Dong-Hee Shin

– The purpose of this paper is to examine how types of virtual brand community (VBC) benefits influence VBC loyalty through specific types of interaction.

Can two-sided messages increase the helpfulness of online reviews?

Ming-Yi Chen

Online reviews are increasingly available for a wide range of products and services. Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of the presence of customer reviews to an…

Figshare: a universal repository for academic resource sharing?

Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha

A number of subject-orientated and general websites have emerged to host academic resources. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the uptake of such services in order to…

Review on event detection techniques in social multimedia

Muskan Garg, Mukesh Kumar

Social Media is one of the largest platforms to voluntarily communicate thoughts. With increase in multimedia data on social networking websites, information about human behaviour…

Utilizing overtly political texts for fully automatic evaluation of political leaning of online news websites

Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Esther David, Moshe Koppel, Hodaya Uzan

Reliability and political bias of mass media has been a controversial topic in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to propose and implement a methodology for fully…

Collaborative writing with wikis: an empirical investigation

Helen S. Du, Sam K.W. Chu, Randolph C.H. Chan, Wei He

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the process and interaction among group members using wikis to produce collaborative writing (CW) projects, and to compare their…

Online sustainability information in European local governments: An explicative model to improve transparency

Pilar Tirado-Valencia, Mª Luisa Rodero-Cosano, Mercedes Ruiz-Lozano, Araceli Rios-Berjillos

The purpose of this paper is to propose an analytical model that shows causal relationships between the amount and nature of information on strategies and the governance of city…

A study on statistical methods used in six journals of library and information science

Jin Zhang, Yuehua Zhao, Yanyan Wang

Quantitative methods, especially statistical methods, play an increasingly important role in research of library and information science (LIS). For different journals, the uses of…

What makes people react to the posts on the brand pages of mobile social network games?

Hyesun Jeon, Hyung Jun Ahn, Gun Jea Yu

Mobile social network games (mSNGs) are gaining increasing popularity recently. Many of the games are marketed using the brand pages on social network services including Facebook…

The Internet of Things (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series)

Mae Keary

International Mediation Bias and Peacemaking: Taking Sides in Civil Wars

Kai Chen