IT Enabled Collaboration for Development

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    Officials Development Aid and the Sustainable Development of E-Government in a Developing Country: The Two Cases of Laos
    (2024-01-03) Phommilath, Pingpanya; Wu, Haiming; Zhang, Nan
    E-Government is proven to be an effective tool to promote sustainable development in both developing and developed nations. Many developing nations are trying to embark on this new technology to transform government services with help from donors and developed countries. However, only some of these e-government projects can be sustained for extended periods of time. Ironically, e-Government does contribute to sustainable development. However, it could be challenging to sustain itself in many Official Development Aids (ODA) based government projects in developing countries. In the case of Laos, e-government projects delivered what they promised but could not continue after the project ended. This study aims to identify the issues that prevent the sustainability of the ODA e-Government project and what factors help the ODA e-Government success to sustain after the project ends in Laos. By applying Lessa's (2019) Sustainability framework for e-government success: feasibility assessment as a guiding principle and qualitative method of cross-case analysis to analyze recent failures and successes to sustain ODA e-government government to citizen service in Laos by interview and in-depth observation as data collection method. The results have helped assess and identify the key features of projects, both those that fail and those that succeed.
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    Emotional Reactions in Information Dissemination Through the Lens of SOR Theory
    (2024-01-03) Tseng, Hsiao-Ting; Dong, Xin-Cheng; Lin, Shu-Chiung; Mou, Jian
    Social media has changed the readers’ consumption of news. Traditionally, news reports must be neutral and objective. However, digital news is inundated with emotion-laden clickbait, which increases the likelihood of users being exposed to a negative news environment. As such, this study explores the chain effect of information sentiment dissemination in relation to the generation characteristics of news text content. News is collected from mainstream media and a BERT model is trained to classify the headlines that influence readers and listeners’ emotions. In addition, stimulus-organism-response theory is used to understand the stimuli effects of online news in social media on audiences, including if readers are willing to turn psychological stimuli into action reposts, subsequent emotional expression or discussion of topics, and other stimuli-response chain reactions. Results show that the sentiment in news headlines significantly affects the readers’ dissemination behavior and subsequent emotional responses. This study allows journalism and their readers to understand the challenges they face in the digital news environment.
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    Understanding the Role of Virtual Anchor-Brand Image Fit in Virtual Live Streaming
    (2024-01-03) Ji, Man; Chen, Xiayu; Wei, Shaobo; Liu, Qi; Sun, Jianshan
    We explore the influence of matching the virtual anchor’s image, voice, and language style with brand image on consumers’ purchase intentions. Furthermore, we identify two key mediators (i.e., processing fluency and perceived affinity) that impact the relationship between the virtual anchor-brand image fit and purchase intentions. We find that virtual anchor image and brand image fit, virtual anchor voice and brand image fit both have a positive influence on purchase intentions. Figurative language causes a higher purchase intention for a warm brand image, while literal language does not lead to a higher purchase intention for a competent brand image. Processing fluency and perceived affinity mediate the relationship between virtual anchor image and brand image fit, virtual anchor voice and brand image fit, and purchase intentions. Perceived affinity mediates the effects of language style and brand image fit on purchase intention, whereas no mediating effect of processing fluency is found.
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    Introduction to the Minitrack on IT Enabled Collaboration for Development
    (2024-01-03) Cheng, Xusen; Yan, Xiangbin; Bajwa, Deepinder