Considerable media attention was focused on how U.S. presidential candidates in 2008 integrated Facebook and other social networking sites into their campaign strategies. In this context, understanding the formation and utilization of online social networks becomes important. Social network...

The first objective of this article is to propose a conceptual framework, presenting the main factors that can have an impact on an internet user’s response to a commercial email. In addition to the variables related to the email itself and to the situation of its reception, the model...