Social networking site has become ubiquitous in just a few years. Their success depends on users' intention to adopt and willingness to continue investing their time and attention in this media in the absence of formal contract. This study investigates the formation of people's affective...

The explosive growth of online social networking necessitates a better understanding of privacy in this context to guide system design and policy-making. Drawing on the theory of psychological boundaries and previous literature on information privacy, we extend the extant conceptualization of...

Online question-and-answer platforms allow consumers to learn different perspectives of information and knowledge from content producers. Such platforms’ performance critically depends on both quantity and variety of knowledge contents generated by the crowd. This paper studies how early-stage...