Transparency has become the watchword solution for a range of social challenges, including related to content moderation and platform power. Obtaining accurate information about how platforms operate is a gatekeeping problem, which is essential to meaningful accountability and engagement with...

Platform recognition in the form of non-financial incentives such as badges, status, and ranks are commonly employed to incentivize user contributions. We study one such incentive, "status", in the context of a user-generated content platform, specifically a third-party online restaurant-review...

Many e-commerce platforms provide marketing tools to help their sellers attract customers and enhance user experience. However, there is virtually no theoretical framework or systematic evidence that provides insights to platforms on how their business customers use these marketing tools. In...

Motivated by a number of socioeconomic and political issues that attract competing (polarizing) beliefs in the society, this paper studies the impact of such beliefs on content consumption and production on a platform. Consumers are initially uninformed about the content quality but have the...

Today’s era is digitalized era. Study to entertainment everything is now available online. Now, information & products are only fingers away. Digitalisation has drastically changed the use of work & content we consume. Due to the pandemic situation, OTT platforms are now more demanding. People...

We formulate the problem of designing a personalized recommendation system for an online business-to-business (B2B) marketplace, propose a method to solve it, and evaluate results using field experiments. In this problem, buyers place requests for quotation (RFQs) to the platform, sellers...

What are the principal consequences on organization and management of the ongoing Digital Revolution? This essay examines how value can be created and captured in fundamentally new ways thanks to digital innovation. I propose that digital platform firms and their ecosystems are the emblematic...

Problem Definition: Content promotion policies are playing an increasingly important role in improving content consumption and user engagement for online content platforms. However, a frequently used promotion policy generally neglects employing the diffusion effect within a crowd of users. In...

For a few years crowdfunding has been successfully employed to finance independent artists. Usually artists ask for donations to finance release of an album or a tour. This paper concentrates on different use of crowdfunding: the idea that whole crowdfunding platform could operate as an...

שימוש בטכנולוגיות השונות לתקשורת בינאישית: הודעות טקסט, דואר אלקטרוני, אפליקציות, שיחות טלפון ושיחות ווידאו נע לאורך רצף עושר תקשורתי נמוך עד גבוהה. בהודעות טקסט...