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Although the field of social commerce has gained a lot of attention recently, there are many areas that still remain unexplored. One of these gaps is the growing use of social commerce by micro businesses. This paper explores the factors that motivate members of a virtual community to venture into business-related activities (i.e. selling goods and services to other community members and/or writing...
In response to multiple LGBTQ youth suicides in 2010, Dan Savage and Terry Miller sought to provide messages of hope to at-risk LGBTQ youth through the YouTube-based "It Gets Better Project" (IGBP). With empirical data gathered through online chat-based in-depth interviews, this study offers insight into multi-dimensional motivations for participation in an online community. Pointedly, data...
We present findings from a case study of an innovative firm that developed blogging software and successfully leveraged that software for collaborative work in their global virtual firm. Our study shows that use of blogs was effective as it enhanced information sharing across locations to support three enablers of virtual work: shared understanding, integration, and trust. We synthesize five integrative...
Using text analysis tools to study large data sets is currently an area of popular interest. Prompted by the success of several big data research initiatives, researchers from a variety of disciplines wish to gather and analyse textual data [7]. Communication between members of diverse teams can present a problem and developing a shared language and understanding of the task is necessary [6].
This paper reported two case studies that explored the construction of personal learning environment (PLE) to enhance learning engagement of university students. Students participating in two case studies were provided with different PLEs that were developed through use of two popular educational social networking platforms-Elgg and Edmodo-to respectively support student-centered pedagogical activities...
Schools have seen an exponential increase in the range of Information Communication Technology (ICT) being utilised for learning and teaching over the past decade, especially with the advent of the internet. What is exciting is not just more technology but that there are more types of technology which teachers can pick and choose from, based on their own pedagogical preferences. Set in the context...
The important Impacted of Internet reviews is gradually understood and accepted by the enterprises as a new style of Internet marketing. The study summarizes the function of the Internet reviews. By the literature review and interview & survey, and it finds the influential factors of Internet reviews function are the (1) specialty of content; (2) the objectivity of content; (3) vivid form; (4)...
This paper is a qualitative examination of the participatory potential of social media, focusing on a student-organized protest against censorship in Singapore. While the debate regarding the impact of new media on politics is well-documented, few studies have explicitly detailed the process of online civic mobilization in terms of its contribution to the more traditional forms of political participation,...
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