Quality of information in academic e‐mailing lists

Uwe Matzat

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009, vol. 60, issue 9, 1859-1870

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.

Date: 2009
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