one virtual team as they engage in instant messaging (IM) conversations to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate. In … studying the IM conversations of team members over the course of a month, a number of challenges to coherence emerged as they …

methodology and latent mean analysis from data collected from younger‐aged Chinese and American IM users in two studies. Findings …Purpose – This paper aims to show how instant messaging (IM) service providers are helping and hindering societal … mental health among young adults. That is, IM services provide users with an ability to obtain instantaneous and inexpensive …

The concept of privacy has proven difficult to analyze because of its subjective nature and susceptibility to … psychological and contextual influences. This study challenges the concept of privacy as a valid construct for addressing … offer a more reliable and temporally stable measure of privacy-oriented behavior than do snapshots of environmentally …

still possible for an adversary to reconstruct the original data using additional information thus resulting in privacy …, based on statistical decision theory, that assesses the relationship between the disclosed data and the resulting privacy … database. We assess the privacy risk by taking into account both the entity identification and the sensitivity of the disclosed …

While Internet users claim to be concerned about online privacy, their behavior rarely reflects those concerns. In this … paper we investigate whether the availability of comparison information about the privacy practices of online merchants … affects users’ behavior. We conducted our study using Privacy Finder, a “privacy-enhanced search engine” that displays search …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how satisfaction is generated towards e-learning platforms. Design/methodology …