Web‐based technologies have created numerous opportunities for electronic word‐of‐
mouth (eWOM) communication. This phenomenon impacts online retailers as this easily …

Little research focuses on lurking in the online environment or considers lurking as a valid
and important form of online behavior. This may be due to the fact that there are a number of …

Word-of-mouth (WOM) study is extended to the on-line context (eWOM) by examining the
informational and normative determinants of the perceived credibility of on-line consumer …

Social networks have attracted significant attention in academic research. Nevertheless,
there is a paucity of research on simultaneous information seeking and sharing behaviors in …

Abstract Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) is an important factor in marketing
communication. As more people use eWOM to assist them in making purchase decisions …

The success of Wikipedia as a large-scale collaborative effort has spurred researchers to
examine the motivations and behaviors of Wikipedia's participants. However, this research …

This study reviews the recent empirical studies on knowledge sharing in Virtual
Communities (VCs). The paper begins with an analysis of the VC conceptualisation and the …

Shifnan illuminates the roles of a central cultural phenomenon in the digital age—the meme.
She introduces the concept of the Internet meme, and traces the rise of memes over the past …

A growing number of systems on the Internet create what we call information pools, or
collections of online information goods for public, club or private consumption. Examples of …

An intelligent tour service system including an augmented reality (AR) tour-sharing
Application (APP) and a query-answering server was developed in this study to promote …