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An exploratory study of bloggers' information sharing behavior: The role of online privacy concerns

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Social networking websites have become very popular with Internet users as one of the latest forms of online communication tools. Blogs, recurrently updated web pages with a series of archived postings in social network websites have been discussed as a useful information sharing platform for knowledge management in a collaborative work environment. However, blogs generate growing concerns regarding information privacy issues. This study, based on social capital theory, presents exploratory results about bloggers’ information sharing behavior. The survey results indicate that trust which has four second order factors: economy based trust, trust in reciprocity, trust in other bloggers and trust in social interaction positively affects bloggers’ information sharing behavior. However, online information privacy concerns have a negative impact on the relationship between trust and bloggers’ information sharing behavior.

Source: Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Authors: Sangmi Chai, Sanjukta Das, H. Raghav Rao

Institutions: Ewha Womans University, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Sogang University

Language: English

Topic: Knowledge Management and Sharing

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: ITWF: Women and Cyber Security: Gendered Tasks and Inequitable Outcomes

OpenAlex ID: W1523292553

FWCI: 0.62

Cites: 47

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10