P atients regularly tell me that they have checked my credentials online — one of several ways adults seek information on the Internet about health, specific diseases, treatments, hospital outcomes and insurance pro vid ers. This and the next issue of the Canadian Journal of Surgery include articles discussing online health information, providing insight on the quantity, quality and readability...

This paper explores the factors of enhancing employed job seekers intention to use social networking sites as a job search tool. 190 survey questionnaires were distributed to employed job seekers who have used social networking sites via the snowball sampling approach. The collected data were analysed using both linear and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that perceived usefulne...

This paper examines the hype about using social networking as a tool to promote learning in elearning environments. Specifically, the validity of the following assertions are delineated and discussed: 1) constructing knowledge using social networking, 2) creating learning communities using social networking, and 3) building communities of practice using social networking.

Consumer trust is one of the key obstacles to online vendors seeking to extend their consumers across cultures. This research identifies culture at the individual consumer level. Based on the Stimulus– Organism–Response (S–O–R) model, this study focuses on the moderating role of uncertainty avoidance culture value on privacy and security as cognition influences, joy and fear as emotional influe...

Social networking services (SNS) provide innovative online platforms for social interactions and communications. In order to understand users’ continuance intention of using SNS, we first propose a comprehensive research model based on the expectation-confirmation model (ECM) of IS continuance. Our model examines direct and indirect factors affecting users’ continuance intention of SNS usage. W...

Chen, Heatherton, and Freeman review the unique strategy of longitudinally assessing the neural changes that occur during the acculturation process. This process differs from the typical research strategy of comparing individuals from two unique cultures or using bicultural individuals and priming them with different cultural cues. The authors use this strategy to determine whether longitudinal...

Thisreport presents the results of a pilot study on the online behavioral habits of 46 internet users; 26 of whom self-identified as having a visual impairment (either blind or low vision). While significant research exists which documents the degree of difficulty that users with visual impairments have in interacting with the Web relative to the sighted, few have addressed the degree to which ...

The recent advent of social networking has changed the way people communicate and connect with each other. As a result, several studies have been conducted on social networking, but they rarely touched on the user acceptance of social networking by employees. This study, in turn, attempts to fill this gap by explaining the user acceptance of social networking by proposing a research model for t...

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURE FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS By Pierre St. Juste May 2014 Chair: Renato J. Figueiredo Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering The immense popularity of social networking services such as Facebook, Twi...