This paper studies the strategic network formation in a location-based social network. We build an empirical model of social link creation that incorporates individual characteristics and pairwise user similarities. Specifically, we define four user proximity measures from biography, geography,...

The mobile app market is one of the most successful software markets. As the platform grows rapidly, with millions of apps and billions of users, search costs are increasing tremendously. The challenge is how app developers can target the right users with their apps and how consumers can find...

This research methods article proposes a visual data analytics framework to enhance social media research using deep learning models. Drawing on the literature of information systems and marketing, complemented with data-driven methods, we propose a number of visual and textual content features...

We study a continuous-time reputation game in which an informed player bene ts from persistent private information while an uninformed player suffers from it. Observing noisy signals of the informed player's actions, the uninformed player chooses when to reveal the informed player's private...

Cyber-insecurity is a serious threat in the digital world. In the present paper, we argue that a suboptimal cybersecurity environment is partly due to organizations’ underinvestment and a lack of suitable policies. The motivation for this paper stems from a related policy question: how to...