Internet Research: Volume 17 Issue 2

The role of online and offline features in sustaining virtual communities: an empirical study

Hsiu‐Fen Lin

By expanding the technology acceptance model, the purpose of this paper is to provide a research model to examine the impact of online (information quality, system quality and…

Factors influencing online music purchase intention in Taiwan: An empirical study based on the value‐intention framework

Ching‐Wen Chu, Hsi‐Peng Lu

The purpose of this paper is to provide an explanation of factors influencing online music purchase intention of Taiwanese early adopter of online music, which can help the online…

Network externality and future usage of Internet services

Sung Yong Chun, Minhi Hahn

The purpose of this paper is to investigate different effects of three network externality factors, i.e. local network size, network strength, and total network size, on online…

An overview of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) as an anti‐phishing mechanism

Stefan Görling

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and discuss its merits for adoption as an anti‐phishing mechanism.

Internet archaeology: uncovering pension sector web site evolution

Kathryn Waite, Tina Harrison

The paper has two objectives. First, it seeks to present a procedure for exploring web site development using the Internet archive (www.archive.org). Second, it aims to test the…

The impact of web site structure on link analysis

Thomas Mandl

This web mining paper aims at analyzing whether the number of links pointing to a web page is biased by the structure of web sites.

Conceptualization of hybrid web sites

Antonio Navarro, Alfredo Fernández‐Valmayor

The purpose of this paper is to provide a mechanism to characterize web sites, at the conceptualization stage, whose information content can be defined in terms of hybrid…

Revolution and evolution of online communities

David Schwartz