This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...

The research purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to test and verify the influences of fashion attentiveness on mobile communication in the context of China, and second, to analyze how fashion attentiveness moderate other demographical variables' influence on mobile Internet use, and...

Mobile Internet is growing around the world without exception for developing countries like Thailand by passing the poor legacy wired infrastructure. This study attempts to provide guidance to a national regulatory agency (NRA) by addressing the following question: What are the key determining...

This paper deals with the relevance of mobile media in shaping online activities and patterns of interaction and its relation with industrial stakeholders and individual users' perspectives on the technology. The concepts of mediation and mediatization, as well as the processes of belonging and...

As the development of mobile internet bring convenient for people, the openness and variety of services make its security issues more complicated than those of traditional network. Firewall and intrusion detection focuses on external aggression, and cannot prevent revealing of internal...