An Empirical Study to Understanding the User Types and Their Behaviors in Online Q&A Community at the Time of Public Emergency:A Case on Inferior Capsule Event

  • Li Gang ,
  • Chen Jinghao
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  • Center for the Studies of Information Resources of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072

Received date: 2013-09-23

  Revised date: 2013-11-03

  Online published: 2013-12-20

Abstract

This paper analyzes the user types and their behavior in Q&A community at the time of public emergency. The results show that the questions and answerers are almost synchronous appeared on the Q&A community during the public emergency. Someone just posted the question on the community. They got the answers at the same day. And the public emergency can attract a lot of anonymous users and dormancy users to participate in Q&A community. The satisfaction rate and answer quantity of active users are obviously higher than other users. The adopted rate of answers from authority is higher than others. At last, some suggestions are proposed.

Cite this article

Li Gang , Chen Jinghao . An Empirical Study to Understanding the User Types and Their Behaviors in Online Q&A Community at the Time of Public Emergency:A Case on Inferior Capsule Event[J]. Library and Information Service, 2013 , 57(24) : 95 -100 . DOI: 10.7536/j.issn.0252-3116.2013.24.016

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