... digital hoarding behaviors on social media when confronted with user-generated content (UGC) and then to reveal the underlying mechanisms driving this process. Design/methodology/approach An online survey with 404 participants was conducted to empirically test our proposed model using partial least...

... a definition for user-generated content, a term that though has lost some saliency, stands in the center or the social media phenomenon, so it should not be disregarded as an object of study. Design/methodology/approach Celebrating 20 years of the concept, this research performs a multidisciplinary...

...Cheng-Chieh Hsiao Purpose With the prevalence of user-generated content on the internet, this study aims to propose a cognitive-affective-conative model to examine how users create and share their content online. The moderating role of gender differences is also tested in the model. Design...

..., and discusses its managerial implications. Additionally, since many free user-generated content (UGC) platforms are making a transition to the paid-for business model, these insights can also provide a reference for them. Faming Zhang is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: zfm1214@163.com...

...Olga Papadopoulou; Markos Zampoglou; Symeon Papadopoulos; Ioannis Kompatsiaris Purpose As user-generated content (UGC) is entering the news cycle alongside content captured by news professionals, it is important to detect misleading content as early as possible and avoid disseminating...

... of users’ emotions. Previous works on sports-related user-generated content found both positive and negative emotions to play a significant role in influencing fans’ experience (Babac and Podobnik, 2016 ; Sanderson, 2016 ; Yu and Wang, 2015). After all, sports are about the joy of winning...

...Antonia Estrella-Ramón; Fiona Ellis-Chadwick Purpose Due to the fact that user-generated content (UGC) and online brand communities (OBCs) are gaining popularity, the purpose of this paper is to identify the type of UGC that has a real effect on product success, in terms of the number of owners...

...Jayan Chirayath Kurian; Blooma Mohan John Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore themes eventuating from the user-generated content posted by users on the Facebook page of an emergency management agency. Design/methodology/approach An information classification framework was used...

...Jayan Chirayath Kurian Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the type and implications of user-generated content posted by users of an open access institutional repository (DSpace) on Facebook. Design/methodology/approach – The identified user-generated content was organised...

... to identify authentic reviews based on three textual characteristics: comprehensibility, informativeness, and writing style. These textual characteristics are described as follows. Informativeness Theoretical framework Online reviews Comprehensibility User-generated content Writing style...