Consumers interact with each other and within their social networks. Influentials have an overproportional influence on other consumers? preferences and choices, thus having relevant implications for product development, marketing planning and strategic marketing. An important question that...

Der Informationsaustausch zwischen Konsumenten im Internet wird zunehmend von Unternehmen als Träger beeinflussender Kommunikation erkannt und im Sinne kommunikationspolitischer Ziele instrumentalisiert. Hierbei wird bspw. mittels materieller Anreize versucht, auf das...

Researchers and practitioners increasingly are gaining access to data onexplicit social networks. For example, telecommunications and technologyfirms record data on consumer networks (via phone calls, emails,voice-over-IP, instant messaging), and social-network portal sites suchas MySpace,...

Viral marketing is the business approach that uses peer-to-peer communications to increase product awareness and adoptions through widespread social networks of receivers. Benefiting from the unprecedented fast growth of online social networks, this marketing maneuver merits a deeper...

Prepared for a Conference on Transnational Networks in Princeton in 2001, this paper explored the comparative dynamics of the trans-local networks which South Asian migrants from Mirpur (Pakistan), Jullundur (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh) have constructed around themselves.

In this thesis we consider how user-generated content that is assembled by different popular Web portals can be exploited for Multilingual Information Retrieval. We define the knowledge that can be derived from such portals as Social Semantics. We present to approaches, Cross-lingual Explicit...

The aim of the diploma paper: to develop an interaction model for the young fashion buyers and the Inkariukai brand-ambassadors.The object of the diploma paper: interaction between the young fashion buyers and the Inkariukai brand-ambassadors.The tasks of the diploma paper:1. To condust a...

Doctor of Philosophy