Social media has become an influential and dynamic virtual space where the platform is used for social networking and a great opportunity to digitally promote a business and establish relations with customers. This study aims to understand how social media marketing activities influence brand...

The Internet is growing at a rate of almost 50-100% per year in India. From being a medium for exchange of information and communication between the scientific research workers, it has opened a vast vista of entertainment and information (edutainment) for millions of people on the Internet...

Women Consumers are playing an important role in online shopping. The increasing use of internet by the women consumers in India provides an emerging prospect for online retailers. If online retailers know the factors affecting women consumers' buying behavior, then they can further develop...

Objective - The objectives of this article are threefold; first, to identify factors affecting the effectiveness of social media advertising; second, to classify the factors into four main dimensions (namely: source, social, content and attitudinal); third, to conceptualise the factors and...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of Facebook and Instagram on consumer buying behaviour in the retail fashion market in Rhodes, Greece. We look at the extent to which the two social media influence Rhodian consumer preferences toward certain stores and at whether Rhodians...

The financial motivation to earn advertising revenue by spreading misinformation has been widely conjectured to be among the main reasons misinformation continues to be prevalent online. Research aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation has so far focused on user-level interventions with...

While recent research has demonstrated the impact of online product ratings and reviews on product sales, we still have a limited understanding of the individual’s decision to contribute these opinions. In this research, we empirically model the individual’s decision to provide a product...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key influencing factors towards mobile marketing acceptance among youth in Karachi. It further analyzes the impact of mobile marketing acceptance on its advertising value. To achieve the objective of this study a convenient sample of 247...

The recent stagnation of electronic commerce highlights the need to understand contemporary online consumer behavior. This study incorporates current user demographics and emerging Internet activities to dynamically model the determinants of two key measurements of recent online shopping, a...