The value of information: approaches in economics, accounting, management science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Assessing the value of information
ICIS '89 Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information Systems
Information rules: a strategic guide to the network economy
Information rules: a strategic guide to the network economy
A proposal for valuing information and instrumental goods
ICIS '99 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
The effect of source nature and status on the subjective value of information
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Predictors of answer quality in online Q&A sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The incentive structure in an online information market
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Predicting web searcher satisfaction with existing community-based answers
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Human-machine design considerations in advanced machine-learning systems
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Impression formation in corporate people tagging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
A user term visualization analysis based on a social question and answer log
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Prior research has shown that social interaction is important for continuation of question-and-answer (Q&A) activity online and that it also leads to monetary rewards. The present research focuses on the link between social interaction and the value of information. Expressions of self-presentation in the interaction between askers and answerers online are studied as antecedents for answer feedback which represents the value of the answer to the asker. This relationship is examined in a Q&A site, specifically, in Google Answers (GA). The results of content analysis performed on sets of questions and answers show that both explicit and implicit social cues are used by the site's participants; however, only implicit expressions of self-presentation are related to the provision of social and monetary feedback, ratings, and tips. This finding highlights the importance of implicit cues in textual communication and lends support to the notion of social capital where both monetary and social forms of feedback are the result of interaction online. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.