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While large retailers utilize social commerce to increase consumer trust and online sales, a variety of online transactions take place among social networking users. These new forms of e-business models often conceptualized as C2C s-commerce have become one of the most popular methods for consumer online trading. The article proposes four phases of C2C s-commerce (i.e., ad-hoc, empowered, organized,...
Nowadays instant messaging (IM), as a viable communication tool, has been widely adopted in the business field. Instant messaging delivers lots of benefits for business, but most people are unaware of its security problems and other potential implications. This paper focuses on investigating the problems and issues associated with the instant messaging in business. The existing literature is critically...
This study aims to analyze diploma students' behavior in their use of mobile devices for language learning in Hong Kong. A case study is drawn from participants studying at Caritas Institute of Higher Education, who are currently learning Chinese and English in preparation for entering a higher diploma or an associate degree programme in the coming academic year. The result suggested that the factor...
Online communications not only provide instantaneous and inexpensive mean for socialization, but also present an opportunity to understand human relationship. In this paper, we investigated correlation between human social relationship and online communications and modelled personal and business affinity as a linear combination of online interactions. We discovered that personal and business affinities...
This paper takes the college students as the research object and collect relevant data through survey. Then we use the ecology thought to analyze the impact that the WeChat has on the mobile communication. The conclusion provides some reference for operators to decide the next step for further development.
Chatting online by instant messaging (IM) is a very popular way of internet interpersonal communication. QQ is the most popular instant messaging for online chatting in China. This research attempts to examine the main factors of emoticons usage and topics discussed in internet interpersonal communication first based on QQ. Then we attempt to examine the influence of internet interpersonal communication...
Investigations of Short Messaging System (SMS) or texting have been directed at private use and mostly the adolescent population. The present paper investigates SMS in a representative sample of office environments in a Scandinavian town. The results indicate that SMS messaging is not integrated into office work, that the messages are highly informal, mostly from the private sphere and from persons...
Online and mobile communication through Web, email, chat and virtual worlds has raised perplexing questions about language change and unleashed a torrent of public discourse about the impact of emerging technologies on the linguistic and orthographic dimensions of computer-mediated communication (CMC), the shared rules for achieving linguistic competence in those media, and the long-term effects of...
E-relationship marketing is mainly composed of customer relationship management and customer trust and loyalty. Here, customer relationship management doesn't just stand for CRM system. Thinking about the cost, instant messaging, viral marketing, email marketing, will again help maximize the efficiency in E-relationship marketing.
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