Online Information Review: Volume 43 Issue 4

Who listens to podcasts, and why?: the Israeli case

Tal Samuel-Azran, Tal Laor, Dana Tal

Podcasts have become a main content delivery platform in the last decade. Since not enough studies examined the wider population adoption patterns of podcasts in general and…

Africa’s challenges in the OA movement: risks and possibilities

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Kwabena Osei Kuffour Adjei, Christopher M. Owusu-Ansah, Radhamany Sooryamoorthy, Mulubrhan Balehegn

The purpose of this paper is to assess the status of the open access (OA) movement on the African continent, and if there is any financial or moral exploitation by dominant…

Virtual cohabitation in online dating sites: a netnography analysis

Yi-Sheng Wang

The purpose of this paper is to explore in depth the special context and unique life experience of the online dating site and provide insights regarding an interpretation of…

The central roles of embeddedness and engagement in virtual communities

Chao-Min Chiu, Chia-Yun Fu, Wei-Yu Lin, Chieh-Fan Chen

The purpose of this paper is to develop a deeper understanding of how to promote members’ beneficial behaviors toward other members and toward the virtual community (VC). The…

Plagiarism in online literature publishing in China: why is it so rampant?

Zhigang Wang

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the reasons that plagiarism in online literature is so hard to control in China, and it will conclude with a clear solution for the future.

The impact of collective action and market prices: Evidence from an online agricultural discussion forum

Elif Özcan-Tok, Mustafa Utku Özmen, Ertan Tok, Tuba Yılmaz

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the information sharing in an online discussion forum, over an agricultural market characterized by a large number of…

The antecedents and consequences of crowdfunding investors’ citizenship behaviors: An empirical study of motivations and stickiness

Wenjie Zhang, Yun Xu, Haichao Zheng

Based on the theory of customer citizenship behavior (CCB), the purpose of this paper is to explore the antecedents and consequences of investor citizenship behavior in the field…

Intelligent tutoring systems and learning performance: Applying task-technology fit and IS success model

Ali Yuce, A. Mohammed Abubakar, Mustafa Ilkan

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) are a supplemental educational tool that offers great benefits to students and teachers. The systems are designed to focus on an individual’s…

Comparing digital libraries with social media from the dual route perspective

Xianjin Zha, Kunfeng Liu, Yalan Yan, Guanxiang Yan, Jia Guo, Fenfang Cao, Yunzhi Wang

Digital libraries and social media have emerged as two prominent online information sources with different characteristics. The purpose of this paper is to compare digital…

Upward social comparison and Facebook users’ grandiosity: Examining the effect of envy on loneliness and subjective well-being

Myungsuh Lim, Yoon Yang

The purpose of this paper is to confirm the causal relationship, in an upward social comparison, of envy, loneliness and subjective well-being (SWB). Particularly, the authors…

Online transparency and corporate governance in Spanish governmental agencies

Vicente Pina, Lourdes Torres

Online transparency has become a tool to increase legitimacy and trust in governments. The purpose of this paper is to study the online transparency of Spanish Central Government…

Natural language processing applications in library and information science

Zehra Taskin, Umut Al

With the recent developments in information technologies, natural language processing (NLP) practices have made tasks in many areas easier and more practical. Nowadays, especially…