Document (#35094)

Author

Matzat, U.

Title

Quality of information in academic e-mailing lists

Source

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(2009) no.9, S.1859-1870

Year

2009

Abstract

The article analyzes how researchers evaluate the quality of information in Internet e-mailing lists and whether the embeddedness of academic e-mailing lists in offline networks of a scientific community is related to it. The idea is that embeddedness gives researchers more opportunities to build up a reputation through contributing high-quality information to the group. Survey and archive data are used to test hypotheses about the effects of offline networks in 47 academic e-mailing lists used by a random sample of university researchers. Results indicate that the information in embedded online groups is regarded as more valuable than in purely virtual groups.

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