Capitalizing on content: Information adoption in two online communities

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 73-94

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Watts, Stephanie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument quality; Disconfirming information; Focused search; Heuristic systematic model of information processing; Information adoption; Online communities; Source credibility

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARGUMENT QUALITIES; CONTENT INFORMATION; DISCONFIRMING INFORMATION; FOCUSED SEARCH; HEURISTIC-SYSTEMATIC MODEL OF INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION ADOPTION; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; POTENTIAL VALUES; SOURCE CREDIBILITIES; SYSTEMATIC MODELING;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049124287     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00149     Document Type: Article

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