Cultural Jamming on Satire Websites as a Form of Digital Democracy

Social Campaigns on Online Platforms as a New Form of Public Sphere in Digital Era: A Critical Review

Nowadays with the ever-increasing growth in social media platforms and the creation of different forms of online activism, the word known as “Campaign” has become a familiar and useful term in people’s everyday lives. Campaigns with all kinds of social aims especially using Hashtags are run on social media platforms by individuals, charities, NGOs, governments, municipalities and brand companie...

Cultural Determinants of Search Behaviour on Websites

Our research aims to detect the impact of various cultural variables on search behaviour. We tested our hypotheses by examining users’ navigation steps recorded in a large logfile of a widely frequented multilingual website. Results indicate that the users’ culturally determined thinking patterns are reflected in their search behaviour, mainly by the selection of search options that are used fo...

Wiki as a ckm tool in websites

The present research is conducted to show that organizations can use wiki to attract customers' purchase intention inside the e-commerce context. Considering the relation between wiki and ecommerce for CRM, this research tries to explore the characteristics such as perceived risk, customer experience, knowledge sharing culture, trust and knowledge sharing in wiki tool impact on purchase intenti...

Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk

on translation of phatic communion and socio-cultural relationships between the characters of the novels

phatic communion is a cultural concept which differs across cultures. according to hofstede (2001), the u.s. tends to have individualistic culture; however, asian countries tend to have collectivistic cultures. these cultures view phatic communion differently. in individualistic cultures like u.s., phatic communion reflects speakers’ socio-cultural relationships in conversations. to see whether...