Journalists from U.S. daily newspapers responded to a national survey focusing on the credibility of electronic mail use in newsgathering. Factor analysis produced a six dimension solution. The dominant factor was accuracy, but other factors included completeness, sociability, clarity, timeliness, and techno-complexity. Journalists expressed concern for the perceived lack of accuracy and comple...

Little attention has focused so far on evaluating the success of online communities. This paper starts to identify some key determinants of sociability and usability that help to determine their success. Determinants of sociability include obvious measures such as the number of participants in a community, the number of messages per unit of time, members’ satisfaction, and some less obvious mea...

The present study investigated the reasons for inconsistent findings concerning birth-order effects and extraversion. According to Sulloway (1995, 1996), one would expect first-born siblings to rate higher on one of the facets, dominance, and later-born siblings to rate higher on the other facet, sociability. In a within-family design, 96 undergraduate and graduate students rated themselves and...