Web 2.0 applications in government web sites: Prevalence, use and correlations with perceived web site quality

Online Information Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 175-195

  Chua, Alton Y K ^a   Goh, Dion H ^a   Ang, Rebecca P ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

E government; Web 2.0; Web site quality; Web sites; Wikis

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ECONOMIES; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKERS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; E-GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT WEBSITES; MASHUPS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NETWORKING SERVICES; OVERALL QUALITY; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PUBLIC DOMAINS; RESEARCH LIMITATIONS; SERVICE QUALITY; SOCIAL TAGGING; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WEB 2.0; WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS; WEB DEVELOPERS; WEBSITE QUALITY; WIKIS;

BENCHMARKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84860367991     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521211229020     Document Type: Review

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