Researchers have been increasingly interested in examining the effect of social network site based entertainment applications (SNSEA) in retaining while expanding user base for the websites. This paper therefore proposed a research model that investigates how the different types of information embedded on SNSEA affect such continuous participation according to elaboration-likelihood model. The ...

This article aims to examine the effects of an instructional model that leverages innovative technologies in the classroom to cultivate collaboration that improves students’ comprehension, fosters their creativity, and enables them to better express and communicate their ideas through drawing. This discussion focuses on classroom interaction systems and technologies that can foster creativity, ...

Although longer reviews are generally considered more helpful, no research has investigated whether “the more the better” also applies to the expression of emotions. This paper explores the distinct effects of review length and emotional intensity. We propose that, in contrast to review length, the intensity of emotions has a negative effect on review helpfulness, and that this effect only appl...

INTRODUCTION Sustained and elaborative emotional information processing in depression and decreased affective elaboration in schizophrenia are considered hallmarks of these disorders but have not been directly measured. Gamma-band (35-45 Hz) EEG has been associated with semantic functions such as feature binding and may index these elaborative processing. This study examined whether there were ...

Online customer reviews (OCR) have become an important part of online customers’ decision making. People also use OCR to get better understanding of the characteristics of the product and also learn about other customers’ experience with the product. Drawing upon Elaboration Likelihood Model, this research investigates the predictors of readership and helpfulness of OCR. Our findings show that ...

Abstract The present study provides a survey of the semantics depictive (in broad sense, including circumstantials) adjectival compounds in Vedic Sanskrit. Following typology constructions developed by Himmelmann & Schultze-Berndt (2005), we structure our classification along semantic fields that such expressions tend to occur in. Our results show Vedic, use spans (almost) whole gamut funct...

Two governance mechanisms employed by organizations to improve the perceptions and usage of their online knowledge repositories among knowledge workers are employing experts to control or edit users’ contributions (refereed repositories), and allowing a community of users to review, rate, or edit existing contributions (community wikis). Although these mechanisms are purported to improve the qu...