When definitions of two distinct criminal offenses overlap, power to decide which definition to apply to an arrest devolves to local law enforcement agencies. This discretion can lead to unequal treatment and denial of due process, especially when disadvantaged populations are arrested for...

Facebook with the largest group of daily active user on social network was the largest subset of digital divide. Facebook native were user who joined Facebook as student, and Facebook immigrant were those who joined Facebook in later days after school. The two groups of people who were opt-in...

Although we know that social movements affect beliefs and public policies, it is not clear how they impact consumption. To address this question, we examine whether and how #MeToo — a preeminent global social movement raising awareness of sexual abuse and harassment against women — affected...

Branded real estate projects are better positioned in marketing circles than equivalent projects lacking iconic associations like "Trump [development type]." Real estate today is a consumer product in one seminal respect. Brand reflects upon the lifestyles of persons shopping, eating, working...

With virtual purchases being a leading source of revenue for game developers, it is still unclear how players evaluate non-functional goods and the experiences those goods grant. With the use of structural topic models, this work demonstrates the dimensions of players’ experience extracted...

This paper studies the impact of friction and preferences on match formation in two-sided markets. Because every agent has private information about their preferences for potential matches’ characteristics, forming a match based on mutual compatibility requires extensive costly search. We use...

We explore how people balance their needs to belong and to be different from their friends by studying their choices of a virtual-house wall color on a leading Chinese social-networking site. The setting enables us to randomize both the popular color and the adoption rate at the individual level...

Communication historians have long associated the transformation of journalistic storytelling with the advent of telegraphy. Transmitting news stories as electrical impulses, rather than transporting them as fully formed messages, favored such stylistic qualities as brevity, an inverted-pyramid...

Nowadays, what can be identified as info-communication age, the mobile phone became a determinant technical device in life. I studied the mobile device selection criteria and usage habits of university students with a non-representative research. The results show that the price, look and shape...

Even though researchers are increasingly studying various aspects of m-commerce, few of them focused on factors of m-continuance intention. The main aim of this study is to investigate if consumer innovativeness and social influence are statistically significant predictors of m-continuance...