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An Empirical Study on the Differences between Online Picture Reviews and Text Reviews

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العنوان: An Empirical Study on the Differences between Online Picture Reviews and Text Reviews
المؤلفون: Hanyang Luo, Wanhua Zhou, Wugang Song, Xiaofu He
المصدر: Information, Vol 13, Iss 7, p 344 (2022)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Information technology
مصطلحات موضوعية: online hotel review, picture review, text review, e-commerce, review system, Information technology, T58.5-58.64
الوصف: In the context of e-commerce, online travel agencies often derive useful information from online reviews to improve transactions. Based on the dispute on the usefulness of different types of reviews and social exchange theory, this study investigates how the characteristics of pictures and text influence review reading and review posting behaviors and thus influencing the efficiency of online review systems. By analyzing crawled data of online hotels and conducting experiments, we first find that picture reviews are more useful than text reviews, and high-quality pictures in reviews have a significant impact on review usefulness. Second, posting pictures requires review posters to pay more perceived costs. Third, negative review posters have higher perceived costs, so they are more unwilling to post pictures, especially high-quality pictures. Our results indicate that review platforms need to add incentives to encourage consumers to post high-quality picture reviews and design workable interfaces to reduce the burden of negative reviewers to speed up the purchase decision process for review readers. This study provides theoretical implications by demonstrating how the adoption of the picture in review systems influences both review readers’ and review posters’ behaviors. Additionally, our findings also provide useful managerial insights for online travel suppliers in terms of building an effective review system to promote sales.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2078-2489
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/13/7/344; https://doaj.org/toc/2078-2489
DOI: 10.3390/info13070344
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/a10a2e0891714330a0864ac4089bce94
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.10a2e0891714330a0864ac4089bce94
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20782489
DOI:10.3390/info13070344