In internet culture, lurkers are a special group of website users who regularly login to online
communities but seldom post. This study aims to provide an overall understanding of lurkers …

Using the information systems lifecycle as a unifying framework, we review online
communities research and propose a sequence for incorporating success conditions during …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of visual communications on
Instagram users' propensity to engage with image-based content through online behaviors …

Several organizations have developed ongoing crowdsourcing communities that repeatedly
collect ideas for new products and services from a large, dispersed “crowd” of nonexperts …

Although popular media narratives about the role of social media in driving the events of the
2011 “Arab Spring” are likely to overstate the impact of Facebook and Twitter on these …

Users' continuance intention is vital to the future of micro-blogging service with rapid
development and intensive competitions among its providers. This study examines how …

While a growing number of travelers engages in consumer-generated media (CGM) use and
creation, the gap between the number of users and the number of actual content creators …

During an extreme event, individuals use social media to communicate, self‐organize,
manage, and mitigate risks (crisis‐related communications) but also to make sense of the …

Twitter is an important and influential social media platform, but much research into its uses
remains centred around isolated cases–eg of events in political communication, crisis …

To date, the available literature mainly discusses Twitter activity patterns in the context of
individual case studies, while comparative research on a large number of communicative …