We study social reactions to job destructions on Twitter. We use information on large-scale restructuring events announced in the United Kingdom over the period 2013-2018. We match it with data collected on Twitter regarding the number and sentiments of the tweets posted around the time of the...

When a user shares multi-dimensional data about themselves with a firm, the firm learns about the correlations of different dimensions of user data. We incorporate this type of learning into a model of a data market in which a firm acquires data from users with privacy concerns. User data is...

Background: Facebook ratings provide relevant information and data on hospital quality for individual patients, the hospitals themselves and the institutions responsible for the quality assessment of hospitals. However, there are still considerable doubts in the healthcare sector about the...

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...

In this study, we develop a model that explains the value of social media in innovation processes where technological focus and abilities are converted into product innovations. We test our model in a survey of 305 manufacturing SMEs. Findings show that increased technological orientation (TO)...

The increasing use of digital technologies by governments and companies raises numerous questions regarding the regulation of these technologies, particularly regarding the rights and legal protections citizens are entitled to. The focus is mostly on the application and potential modification of...

This paper reports the results of experiments designed to test whether individuals interacting on Facebook are more likely to succumb to the conjunction fallacy when they post their answers publicly and are exposed to the answers of others. Using the experimental design in Kahneman and Tversky...

Using a randomized experiment targeting wheat producers in Ethiopia, this study examines the impact of providing market price information through Facebook on farmers’ selling prices of wheat. In addition, to identify how homogeneity of informant affects the information use provided via social...

This research investigated how social media can be quantified and used as an input to improve audience forecasts for television show premieres. There were two key findings. First, Twitter activity (volume of tweets and retweets) drives viewership of shows that are unscripted (i.e., reality or...

Implemented properly, virtual health care—like online appointments, patient portals, and remote patient monitoring—has tremendous potential. These technologies can reduce costs and improve efficiency. They can also eliminate access barriers, streamline communication, and improve the...

100 lawyers is a lot, especially for a case that never went to trial or saw a dispositive motion filed. Although Twitter v. Musk did not pan out as the corporate trial of the century, the attorney-appearance record it set still merits some moment. Twitter was a strange case across many...

Emotional intelligence is both characteristic of personality and intellectual capacity, which a person inherits from the genetic material of its parents and evolves - develops throughout lifetime. It refers to information processing capacity arising from the emotions and their utility to guide...

This paper provides the first causal evidence that hostile activities online lead to physical violence. Given the recently documented relationship between pollution and social media, I exploit exogenous variation in local air quality as the first step to instrument for online aggression. In an...

There have been at least two dominant forces at work in the realm of consumer contracting over the past several decades. One has been the rise and domination of the standard form contract, whereby merchants contract with consumers via the use of standardized, boilerplate terms and conditions...

Online shoe store, E-commerce is electronic commerce, buying and selling products and services, transmitting budgets and facts over digital networks. These transactions occur from commercial enterprise to enterprise, business to a buyer, purchaser to a customer, and the client to commercial...

Today Companies are getting desperate to grab the attention of consumers. Competition has forced both marketers and companies to seek new unconventional ways to get their message across to their audience. The innumerous bombardment of information with regard to any product or services has made...

The prevalence of false and misleading news has become an issue of great concern in recent years. Academic researchers, policy makers, and social media firms all continue to seek effective solutions to reduce the sharing of misinformation. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of two...

The emergence of Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) has changed the way of scholarly communication. Each of these ASNS brings unique feature for the researchers. The authors study the awareness and use pattern of full-time research scholars of NITK through a survey-based study. The present...

Online wellness and fitness platforms are increasingly utilizing social support in their wellness programs to motivate healthy activities and improve user engagement. However, many wellness programs suffer from high churn rates that discount their expected efficacy. This introduces negative...

This study aimed to examine the role and impact of social media on the knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh through disseminating actual changes in health safety, trust and belief of social media’s coverage statistics, isolation, and psychological numbness among students. This...

The future of consumers' online shopping trends post COVID-19 remains among the contemporary topics that necessitate further explorations. The aim of this research is to explore the intention of Lebanese and Bahraini consumers to shop online in the post pandemic era. This study extends the...

In 2016, the US elections and Brexit changed the perception and understanding of how social media platforms could influence political outcomes. This has been complemented by the advancement in automation and data processing. This paper studies the influence of bots on online information...