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Between search and platform : ChatGPT under the DSA

Lorente, Toni; Gardhouse, Kathrin - 2026

This article examines the applicability of the Digital Services Act (DSA) to ChatGPT, arguing that it should be classified as a hybrid of the two types of hosting services: online search engines and platforms. This requires classifying search engines as hosting services, which we show is...

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Superplatform : a framework to analyse and regulate Google's online ad ecosystem

Caliskan, Koray; MacKenzie, Donald A.; McGowan, Addie - 2026

This paper introduces the concept of the superplatform to analyse and regulate Google's online advertising ecosystem. As the operator of the world's largest ad exchanges, Google often escapes regulatory oversight and scholarly scrutiny. The superplatform is conceptualised as an integrated...

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An analytics-driven method for building ethical customer digital twins using neuromarketing and social media data

Okyere Sefa, Ama Anomwaa; Rezaei, Mohammadreza; … - 2026

As markets become increasingly digitalised, understanding the emotional and cognitive drivers of consumer behaviour is essential for developing responsive and targeted marketing strategies. This study contributes to the development of Customer Digital Twins (CDTs) by integrating neuromarketing...

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Digital tracking, gamification, social media, and AI : how technology influences motivation

Woolley, Kaitlin; Sharif, Marissa A. - 2026

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Potential of digital marketing and determinants of the 5A marketing strategy : a case in Thailand

Pimolwan Katepan; Rungtip Thaisom; Thamrong Mekhora; … - 2026

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The content moderator's dilemma : removal of toxic content and distortions to online discourse

Habibi, Mahyar; Hovy, Dirk; Schwarz, Carlo - 2026

There is an ongoing debate about how to moderate toxic speech on social media and the impact of content moderation on online discourse. This paper proposes and validates a methodology for measuring the content-moderation-induced distortions in online discourse using text embeddings from...

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The content moderator's dilemma : removal of toxic content and distortions to online discourse

Habibi, Mahyar; Hovy, Dirk; Schwarz, Carlo - 2026

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The content moderator's dilemma : removal of toxic content and distortions to online discourse

Habibi, Mahyar; Hovy, Dirk; Schwarz, Carlo - 2026

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Online marketing tools and students' career decision processes : managerial insights from Iraqi higher education

Karakus, Mehmet; Leyva-Hernández, Sandra Nelly; … - 2026

This study explores how digital and traditional marketing tools influence higher education students' career decision-making, satisfaction, and career commitment during students' educational trajectories in Iraq's rapidly expanding university sector. Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods...

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Social media : population favors regulation-but ban only for those up to the age of 12

Dollmann, Jörg; Hunkler, Christian; Legewie, Nicolas; … - 2026

Social media usage by children and young people is an increasingly controversial topic. The focus is on risks, opportunities, and possible regulations. Politicians from all relevant parties are now open to a social media ban up to a certain age; the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs has set up...

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The impact of social media influencers on customers' perceived brand equity in the Bahraini automobile industry

Abdulla, Anas; Saberi, Maria - 2026

Purpose - Social media has transformed brand communication and how consumers perceive brands. While social media influencers (SMIs) have emerged as key players in digital marketing, their impact on brand equity within the automobile sector remains underexplored. This study examines the impact of...

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Online reviews : information content, drivers, and platform design

Bondi, Tommaso; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2026

Online ratings emerge from a multi-stage process that can systematically distort their informational content. We develop a unified framework decomposing the rating process into distinct components: experienced quality (driven by intrinsic quality, seller effort, and price), expectations formed...

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A strategic compass for navigating Senegal's debt crisis

Ndiaye, Abdoulaye; Kessler, Martin - 2026

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Sound in mode on : how sound stimuli influence customer engagement?

Valenzuela-Gálvez, E. Sophía; González-Benito, Óscar; … - 2026

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The role of social media in online shopper behavior : insights from South Africa

Wiese, Melanie - 2026

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Generative AI for video translation : consumer evaluation in international markets

Wahid, Risqo; Han, Jiseon; Nizar Fauzan; Karjaluoto, Heikki - 2026

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Clash between law power and code power : the case of Norway vs. Meta

Spilker, Hendrik Storstein; Reppen, Maria - 2026

In this article, we analyse the controversies leading up to and following Meta's introduction of the infamous "pay or okay model" for Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) region. In particular, we focus on the central role of the Norwegian data...

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Personalization, disclosure, and investment distortions

Ikuta, Yusuke - 2026

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Ranking for engagement : how social media algorithms fuel misinformation and polarization

Germano, Fabrizio; Gómez, Vicenç; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2026 - Original version: October 2024, this version: February 2026

Social media are at the center of countless debates on polarization, misinformation, and even the state of democracy in various parts of the world. An essential feature of social media is their recommendation algorithm that determines the ranking of content presented to the users. This paper...

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Ranking for engagement : how social media algorithms fuel misinformation and polarization

Germano, Fabrizio; Gómez, Vicenç; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2025

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Ranking for engagement : how social media algorithms fuel misinformation and polarization

Germano, Fabrizio; Gómez, Vicenç; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2025

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Economic effects of digitalization and IT technologies on the efficiency and competitiveness of the energy sector

Al-Ababneh, Hassan Ali; Alomari, Khaled Mohammad; … - 2026

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How ephemeral content marketing fosters brand love and customer engagement

Khoi Minh Nguyen; Ngan Thanh Nguyen; Pham, Thao Thi Xuan; … - 2026

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Is competition only one click away? : the Digital Markets Act impact on Google Maps

Pape, Louis-Daniel; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2026 - Original version: July 2024, this version: Januar 2026

This paper studies the impact of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) on user search behavior and traffic to online mapping services, focusing on recent changes to Google's search results page. In January 2024, Google altered the display of location-based queries for EU users by...

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Is competition only one click away? : the Digital Markets Act impact on Google Maps

Pape, Louis-Daniel; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2024

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Online green persuasions and offline behaviour : evidence from a randomised field experiment on Rakuten's e-commerce platform in Japan

Ishikawa, Takayuki; Yokoo, Hide-Fumi; Kobayashi, Yōhei; … - 2026

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Gatekeepers, platform power, and EU law : enforcement challenges under the digital markets act

Pavlidis, Georgios D. - 2026

This article critically analyses the enforcement framework of the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA), with a focus on its early operational phase. The DMA establishes a new regulatory regime that addresses entrenched platform power through ex ante obligations on designated gatekeepers. Building on the...

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Power of social media influencers on brand awareness, value, and consumer purchases

Munir, Tanya; Watts, Sean - 2026

This study aims to examine the influencer power in shaping consumer purchase intentions. It revolves around the impact of social media influencer (SMI) endorsements on purchase intentions by undertaking the mediating effects of brand awareness and perceived value and the moderating effect of...

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The role of tone of voice in tourism destination brands' social media communication

Barattin, Marta; Latusi, Sabrina - 2026

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Social media livestreaming : investor information or persuasion?

DeHaan, Ed; Huang, Allen; Kannan, Srijith; Qiu, Lu - 2026

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Social media advertising loads as prices

Beknazar-Yuzbashev, George; Jiménez Durán, Rafael; … - 2026

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Social media advertising loads as prices

Beknazar-Yuzbashev, George; Jiménez Durán, Rafael; … - 2026

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The strategic use of microtargeting : the case of the German Federal Elections of 2025

Repp, Stefan - 2026

Political microtargeting (PMT) is often associated with data-intensive voter profiling and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This paper argues that such a framing is increasingly outdated, particularly in tightly regulated contexts. Drawing on expert interviews, social media content analysis and...

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Driving marketing innovation in tourism and hospitality through digital talent : the mediating roles of digital culture and digital strategy

Hasanein, Ahmed M.; Al-Romeedy, Bassam Samir - 2026

This study examines the role of digital talent in driving marketing innovation within tourism and hospitality organizations in the context of ongoing tourism digitalization. Specifically, it investigates how digital culture and digital strategy mediate the relationship between digital talent and...

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A decision-aid approach to social media assessment using PROMETHEE II in Greek grocery retail

Tarnanidis, Theodore; Papathanasiou, Jason; Mareschal, … - 2026

This study assesses the effectiveness of social media advertising campaigns in the supermarket sector by combining managerial insights with multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to support informed, sustainable decision-making. Considering the ever-increasing complexity of digital...

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Developing a cross-cultural competence model for cross-border e-commerce practitioners : empirical validation and implications for entrepreneurial education

Song, Ziyun; Sheerad Sahid; Iszan Hana Kaharudin - 2026

Objective: This study proposes a cross-cultural competence (CCC) model for Chinese college students in the cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) sector, aiming to identify key dimensions and support talent development in digital global trade. Research Design & Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional...

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The internet never forgets : a four-step scraping tutorial, codebase, and database for longitudinal organizational website data

Haans, Richard; Mertens, Marc J. - 2026

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Development of marketing tools for the express delivery industry to increase consumer loyalty

Bocevičius, Hubert; Tamulienė, Vilma - 2026

This research explores how to develop and enhance marketing tools to increase consumer loyalty in the express delivery industry. The study analyzes the influence of these tools on customer loyalty by reviewing scientific literature. The theoretical framework examines various marketing tools,...

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Decoding generation Z purchase intention : the impact of brand awareness, brand equity, digital media content and emotions

Ademi, Lutfije; Zeqiri, Jusuf; Klopotan, Igor - 2026

This study investigates the impact of brand awareness, brand equity, digital media content, and emotions on the purchasing intentions of Generation Z in North Macedonia, those born between 1997 and 2012. Objectives: This study aims to analyse the underlying factors to be considered when...

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Can facebook ads prevent Malaria? : two field experiments in India

Donati, Dante; Rao, Nandan; Orozco-Olvera, Victor H.; … - 2026

This study evaluates a nationwide malaria prevention campaign delivered through social media in India using a district-level cluster-randomized controlled trial. We combine two survey samples(N = 8,253) with administrative health records to assess effects on offline malaria-related behaviors and...

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Investigating the role of influencer marketing in shaping luxury brand perceptions

Akter, Salma; Khan, Raihan Ahamed - 2026

This study aims to determine how influencer marketing affects consumer perceptions of luxury brands. It investigates how social media influence customer perception, paying special attention to how exclusivity, desirability, and authenticity are important factors in consumers' perceptions of...

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Four dimensions of brand storytelling : framework for managing and analyzing online brand stories

Zimand-Sheiner, Dorit - 2026

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Developing a Digital Homestays Readiness Index (DHRI) : a framework for micro-enterprise operational integration

Siti Daleela Mohd Wahid; Wan Mohd Hirwani Wan Hussain; … - 2026

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Strategic management of social media in mega sports events : an integrated framework for sponsorship and engagement

Koronios, Konstantinos; Dimitropoulos, Panagiotis; … - 2026

Social media has become a strategic driver of sponsorship effectiveness in major sporting events. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, digital platforms transformed how sponsorship relationships are formed, sustained, and activated for audience engagement. Yet, the mechanisms through which social media...

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City branding's influence on social media engagement : the cool factor

Schivinski, Bruno; Li, Xiufang; Alahmari, Abdullah M.; … - 2026

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Place marketing or civic information? : classifying municipal tweets using machine learning

Bergh, Andreas; Ekman, Christina Anzén; Moricz, Sara - 2026

How do municipalities use social media? For place marketing, civic information, or dialogue with citizens? We address this question by classifying 35,930 tweets from 15 municipal Twitter accounts in the Skåne region of Sweden, using a machine learning algorithm trained on manually annotated...

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Fairness and politics of digital advertising

Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk; Lozano Rodriguez, Claudia - 2026

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Picture perfect : engaging customers with visual generative AI

Heitmann, Mark; Jansen, Tijmen P. J.; Reisenbichler, Martin - 2026

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In-store advertising with digital signage

Herhausen, Dennis; Jong, David de; Grewal, Dhruv - 2026

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Competition and consumer policy in digital markets

2026

Digital markets have profoundly transformed the way consumers interact with businesses, offering new opportunities for innovative goods and services, greater choice, and enhanced convenience. These evolving dynamics create new challenges for both competition and consumer protection authorities,...

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Exploring users' migration from social media to the metaverse : a push-pull-mooring framework analysis

Romano, Giovanni; Luceri, Beatrice; Aiolfi, Simone - 2026

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A practical guide to LinkedIn advertising reach data for social science : methods, challenges, and five applications

Stausholm, Saila; Garcia-Bernardo, Javier - 2026

LinkedIn data offers a unique way to study how professional groups and organizations underpin economic and political life. This paper shows how LinkedIn’s advertising reach data, which provides anonymized counts of users by job title, skills, employer, and location, can be used to study...

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Growing up in the social media age

2026

Young people today interact in a range of digital environments – from browsing the Internet and playing video games, to connecting with their peers on social media platforms. As social media has become central to how young people communicate and consume information, parents, educators and...

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Virtual influencer marketing : mediating roles of product involvement and brand familiarity

Biason, Ricardo; Elnagar, Ahmed K.; Tolete, Clarissa; … - 2026

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Sustainable fashion in the digital age : investigating consumer responsiveness to value-driven in-app pre- and post-purchase marketing strategies

Iliashenko, Iuliia; Gazzola, Patrizia; Pezzetti, Roberta; … - 2026

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Measuring the return to online advertising : estimation and inference of endogenous treatment effects

Khan, Shakeeb; Nekipelov, Denis N.; Rao, Justin - 2026

In this paper we aim to conduct inference on the "lift" effect generated by an online advertisement display: specifically we want to analyze if the presence of the brand ad among the advertisements on the page increases the overall number of consumer clicks on that page. A distinctive feature of...

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Measuring the return to online advertising : estimation and inference of endogenous treatment effects

Khan, Shakeeb; Nekipelov, Denis N.; Rao, Justin - 2018

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