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Social TV and audience engagement: investigating the relationship between Facebook engagement and TV performance of The Voice (USA)

Tsai, Hsin-Yi Sandy; Lin, Hui-Fei - In: Online Information Review 47 (2022) 3, pp. 453-468

Purpose This study aims to examine entertainment TV shows' social media accounts to theoretically and practically explore the relationship between social media engagement and the performance (represented by ratings) of such shows. Design/methodology/approach By using the data of a popular TV...

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Mainstream, on-demand and social media consumption and trust in government handling of the COVID crisis

Laor, Tal; Lissitsa, Sabina - In: Online Information Review 46 (2022) 7, pp. 1335-1352

Purpose This study examined the association between media consumers' attitudes toward COVID-19-related content on mainstream, on-demand and social media and trust in the government's ability to handle the pandemic crisis. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on an online survey of a...

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Intergenerational family online community and older adults' overall well-being

Gazit, Tali; Nisim, Sarit; Ayalon, Liat - In: Online Information Review 47 (2022) 2, pp. 221-237

Purpose This study aims to evaluate the potential contribution of a membership in an online family community to older adults' overall well-being. Design/methodology/approach A total of 427 respondents over the age of 64 participated in the study ( M = 74.55, SD = 7.13), answering a survey....

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Social networking for scientists: an analysis on how and why academics use ResearchGate

Muscanell, Nicole; Utz, Sonja - In: Online Information Review 41 (2017) 5, pp. 744-759

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the usage and utility of ResearchGate (RG), which is a social networking site where scientists disseminate their work and build their reputations. In a sample consisting largely of American and European academics, the authors analyzed the ways they...

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Why are there so many extreme opinions online?: An empirical, comparative analysis of Japan, Korea and the USA

Yamaguchi, Shinichi - In: Online Information Review 47 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19

Purpose This study aims to verify the following hypothesis: People with extreme opinions post on social media more than those with moderate opinions. Design/methodology/approach A social media posting model was constructed to estimate the influence of extreme opinions on the number of social...

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Are memes selfish? How Internet memes reflect crisis–Covid-19 pandemic in Israel

Laor, Tal - In: Online Information Review 47 (2023) 7, pp. 1377-1395

Purpose The paper aims to explore, using an analysis of the three components of memes content, form and stance – whether and how the memes offer a broad picture of a specific society during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Design/methodology/approach The author collected, from the two largest...

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Understanding link sharing tools continuance behavior in social media

Sun, Jianjun; Sheng, Dongfang; Gu, Dongxiao; Du, Jia Tina; … - In: Online Information Review 41 (2017) 1, pp. 119-133

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the continued use behavior (CU) of link sharing tools based on uses and gratifications theory, the theory of planned behavior and expectation confirmation theory. It then builds a conceptual model that is empirically tested....

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A user’s personality prediction approach by mining network interaction behaviors on Facebook

Chen, Tsung-Yi; Tsai, Meng-Che; Chen, Yuh-Min - In: Online Information Review 40 (2016) 7, pp. 913-937

Purpose For an enterprise, it is essential to win as many customers as possible. The key to successfully winning customers is often determined by understanding the personality characteristics of the object of communication in order to employ an effective communication strategy. An enterprise...

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Don't be so emotional! How tone of voice and service type affect the relationship between message valence and consumer responses to WOM in social media

De Keyzer, Freya; Dens, Nathalie; De Pelsmacker, Patrick - In: Online Information Review 41 (2017) 7, pp. 905-920

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the boundary conditions of the effect of the valence of word-of-mouth on social networking sites (sWOM) on consumer responses (attitude toward the service provider, purchase intention and positive word-of-mouth intention). Specifically, the...

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From e-government to social government: Twitter use by Korea's central government

Feroz Khan, Gohar; Young Yoon, Ho; Kim, Jiyoung; Woo … - In: Online Information Review 38 (2014) 1, pp. 95-113

-based networking strategies into government-to-citizen (G2C) and government-to-government (G2G) strategies. Design …/methodology/approach – The study investigates the nature of social media interactions and networking strategies in the Korean government by … extracting tweets, follower/following relationships, and hyperlinks for 32 ministries. Network patterns and networking strategies …

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