Online Information Review: Volume 46 Issue 1

Personal information management on social media from the perspective of platform support: a text analysis based on the Chinese social media platform policy

Wenhong Zhou, Linxu Dai, Yujie Zhang, Chuanling Wen

In this study, specific measures adopted by the social media platforms in China supporting personal information management are investigated via surveys targeting such platforms…

Message sharing and verification behaviour on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study in the context of India and the USA

Anumegha Sharma, Payal S. Kapoor

Technology has eased access to information. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ease of access and transmission of information via social media has led to ambiguity…

Twitter as a clique: journalists' patterns of Twitter use in Israel

Tal Laor

Approximately 75% of journalists in Western society maintain a Twitter account. This significant presence underscores Twitter's impact on the public agenda. The purpose of this…

Modeling the co-citation dependence on semantic layers of co-cited documents

Maryam Yaghtin, Hajar Sotudeh, Alireza Nikseresht, Mahdieh Mirzabeigi

Co-citation frequency, defined as the number of documents co-citing two articles, is considered as a quantitative, and thus, an efficient proxy of subject relatedness or prestige…

Can social network sites facilitate civic engagement? Assessing dynamic relationship between social media and civic activities among young people

Hua Pang, Kaiyang Qin, Min Ji

The primary goal of this article is to review the existing studies and offer clarity regarding the association between social media adoption and youth civic engagement.

The “so-called” UGC: an updated definition of user-generated content in the age of social media

Marcelo Luis Barbosa dos Santos

When a concept is diffusely defined or, as this article argues, “taken for granted”, it becomes very difficult to track such concept on the literature and have some continuity as…

Reconciling the effects of positive and negative electronic word of mouth: roles of confirmation bias and involvement

Muh-Chyun Tang, Pei-Min Wu

The study explored users' tendency of confirmation bias when processing congenial vs. uncongenial electronic-word-of-mouth (e-WOM) about mystery fictions, a hedonic product…

Understanding online health community users' information adoption intention: an elaboration likelihood model perspective

Tao Zhou

The purpose of this research is to draw on the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) to examine users' information adoption intention in online health communities (OHC).

Analyzing Zoombombing as a new communication tool of cyberhate in the COVID-19 era

Claire Seungeun Lee

The aims of this paper are to explore the rise of cyberhate on the Zoom video conferencing platform at the outset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and to…

Determining factors of participants' attitudes toward the ethics of social media data research

Yi Chen, Chuanfu Chen, Si Li

The purpose of this study was to investigate the participants' attitudes toward the ethical issues caused by collecting social media data (SMD) for research, as well as the…

Investigation of the relationships among educational application (APP) quality, computer anxiety and student engagement

Jung-Chieh Lee, Liang Nan Xiong

Numerous educational applications (APP) have been developed to assist traditional classroom teaching and student learning. APP quality plays a critical role in influencing…