Online Information Review: Volume 46 Issue 2

National memory institutions' social media policies and risk management: a content analysis

Chern Li Liew

Among the current discourses around social media risk management (SMRM) is whether institutions perceive social media (SM) as more of an opportunity to be embraced and regulated…

Incentive mechanisms for government officials' implementing open government data in China

Han Zhang, Ying Bi, Fei Kang, Zhong Wang

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors influencing the behaviors of government officials during the implementation of open government data (OGD). By identifying and…

Watching participatory budgeting events or attending them produce different distributive outcomes

Azi Lev-On

The study examines the impact of presence, synchronicity of exposure and other variables on allocative decisions reached following a participatory budgeting event.

Engagement in a social media: an analysis in higher education institutions

João Coelho Soares, Ricardo Limongi, Eric David Cohen

Social media are channels of communication and relationship between consumers and brands. In this paper, the determinants of consumer engagement in firm-generated content on…

Toward a meaningful experience: an explanation of the drivers of the continued usage of gamified mobile app services

Fei Zhou, Jian Mou, Jongki Kim

This study argues that to drive users' continuance use behaviors, it is necessary to satisfy their desire for a meaningful experience when using information systems (IS)…

How do internet memes affect brand image?

Hsuju Teng, Chi-Feng Lo, Hsin-Hui Lee

This study aims to investigate how Internet memes affect brand image.

Tweet so good that they can't ignore you! Suggesting posting strategies to micro-celebrities for online engagement

Shahid Iqbal Khan, Bilal Ahmad

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of post content, post media and post scheduling strategies on online engagement on Twitter in context of micro celebrities…

Predicting information exposure and continuous consumption: self-level interest similarity, peer-level interest similarity and global popularity

Lu Guan, Yafei Zhang, Jonathan J.H. Zhu

This study examines users' information selection strategy on knowledge-sharing platforms from the individual level, peer level and societal level. Though previous literature has…

A good dentist or not: understanding the role of storytelling in online dentist reviews

Bingjing Mao, Cong Li

Narrative comments about dentists on physician review sites have been documented to increasingly influence people's selection of their dentists. From a communication standpoint…

Let's talk about risks: a pillar framework for social media risk management in memory institutions

Chern Li Liew

While memory institutions' use of social media has proliferated, research and scholarly literature on risks, resulting from social media use, memory institutions' social media…

The impact of belongingness and graphic-based emoticon usage motives on emoticon purchase intentions for MIM: an analysis of Korean KakaoTalk users

Bohee Jung, Hanku Kim, Seung Hwan (Shawn) Lee

Although graphic-based emoticons in mobile instant messenger (MIM) services became an important revenue source for their service provider, empirical research investigating factors…