We argue that citizens distinguish the tone of a campaign from the quality of information that it provides and that evaluations on each dimension respond differently to positive and negative political advertising. We test these claims using survey and advertising data from the 2000 presidential campaign and two 1998 gubernatorial races. In each race, citizens separate judgments about the tone o...

In thispaper we develop a conceptualframework around the attitudes and intentions towards using online information sewice, and we theorise about the differences in relationships between regular information systems and online information services, Specijcally we hypothesize (1) that affect and perceived ease of use are more important than perceived usefulness. and (2) that gender and experìence ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: After having struck in a major natural disaster like an earthquake, different organizations run about to decrease losses. The lack of accurate demand information is a common problem that all emergency response organizations have to encounter such a crisis. Evaluation of the City disaster level is a mean to feed this informati...