Media management scholars have identified various challenges for the contemporary media industry (Siegert et al., 2015): content overload in a hyper-connected world; increasing technology-driven socioethical implications; emerging innovative, new business models; and the development of approaches...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the variables affecting college students' consumption behaviour in the context of the internet celebrity economy and the We Media environment. Design/methodology/approach In this study, five independent variables − perceived ease of use,...

The article discusses the impact of social media use on reading habits among college and university students in Mizoram, a state in northeastern India. Despite having a strong literary tradition and high literacy rates, there are concerns about declining reading habits among students, and social...

Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For example, being inactive on social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury brands can be associated with having a low social status. We show that, in the presence of such spillovers to...

Second screen usage by fans while watching sports events on TV has been increasing in recent years. Although second screens are frequently used in two-way communication with fans and sports clubs, few studies have examined the subject from a theoretical perspective to understand it better. This...

Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For example, being inactive on social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury brands can be associated with having a low social status. We show that, in the presence of such spillovers to...

We study the value of and the demand for instrumentally-valuable information in a simple decision environment where signals are transparently polarized. We find that in both information aggregation and acquisition, subjects use sophisticated heuristics to counter the polarization in signals....

Social media live streams (SMLSs) are becoming mainstream e-commerce platforms, especially for direct selling, offering online retailers (e-tailers) immense consumer interaction and engagement levels. Despite their growing prevalence, e-tailers face difficulties capitalising on this platform to...

With the rise of online video content, especially the growth of online video consumption during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study focuses on Google's video search as an important but understudied platform to explore Google's role in three media diversity areas - format-type...

Chinese citizens are increasingly using WeChat, the most popular instant messaging app. With the growth and popularity of mobile terminals and mobile payment technology, WeChat payment has become the primary choice for more and more people to pay for their daily travel, shopping, and payment,...

Innovator. Brilliant. Narcissist. Many words have been used to describe Elon Musk. To his devoted fans, he is a visionary, driving the world forward, idolized as the real-life Marvel character, Tony Stark. To his critics, he is an unstable egotistical lunatic and needs to be reined in. Love or...

It has been shown that media bias contributes to belief polarization from the supply side. This paper provides a novel perspective from the demand side by testing whether news consumers are strategic enough to detect media bias. We propose a theoretical framework which shows that the tendency of...

This paper investigates the impact of broadband Internet on traditional public media in a large developing country. We use new panel data on public broadcasting at the province level from 2005 to 2017 and a control function approach exploiting variation in China's centralized roll-out of digital...

We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a massive increase in online skilling, and demand shifted towards courses that offered skills, such as...

Present paper is to understand the impact of OTT media service consumption on the use of the internet and comparing OTT service consumption and internet use on the lockdown period against pre-pandemic period.Quarterly secondary data from the year 2019 to 2020 are collected from the Indian...

Purpose - With the appearance of COVID-19, epidemiological measures were implemented which significantly changed the customer behaviour. Media became an important source of information. The fear phenomena in the lockdown era compelled consumers to buy impulsively. Therefore, this paper...

This paper introduces a unifying theoretical framework to understand the relationship between different types of communications technology (CT) and the incidence of civil conflict. In our model, one-way CT allows the government to broadcast messages they use to (mis)inform dissidents about the...

This paper analyzes the effects of monetary stance on the media's favorable (or otherwise) attitude to the State Bank of Viet Nam's (SBV) monetary policy using monthly data from 2011 to 2021. Monetary stance is a multivariate index based on the growth rates of money supply and domestic credit. A...

A "non-user," as the name suggests, refers to an individual who does not use a given product or system. Critical work on non-use elaborates a range of applications for the term we consider here. The variations of non-use under discussion encompass both voluntary and involuntary cases of non-use.

We study how large shocks impact individuals' skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a massive increase in online skilling, and demand shifted towards courses that offered skills, such as telework,...

Despite the worldwide surge in smartphone use, there are no classification metrics based on its use. In this article, a comprehensive concept called 'Cellulographics' is introduced for characterization of smartphone users, which includes behavioral classification based on user characteristics...

After facilitating the rise of streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon by licensing them high-quality content, America’s leading media conglomerates have radically changed course. They are increasingly implementing a new partial disintermediation strategy, which limits the licensing of...