We are currently living in an age, where the use of the Internet has become second nature to millions of people. Not only do businesses depend on the Internet for all types of electronic transactions, but more and more home users are experiencing the immense benefit of the Internet. However, this dependence and use of the Internet bring new and dangerous risks. This is due to increasing attempt...

Purpose – This paper maps out multi-agency partnerships in the UK information assurance (UKIA) network in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The paper surveyed members of the UKIA community and achieved a 52 percent response rate (n=104). The paper used a multidimensional scaling (MDS) technique to map the multi-agency cooperation space and factor analysis and ordinary least squares regressi...

With the wide adoption of the multi-community setting in many popular social media platforms, the increasing user engagements across multiple online communities warrant research attention. In this paper, we introduce a novel analogy between the movements in the cyber space and the physical space. This analogy implies a new way of studying human online activities by modelling the activities acro...

The aim of this research is to help advance a better understanding of digital advertising innovation adoption, consumer acceptance of customized advertising, and the influence of customized advertising on product purchase intent via a mobile social network. To this end, two types of questionnaires, including an open questionnaire filled up by 16 experts and university professors was designed to...

The cyber culture changes relations with the knowledge: the speed of emergence and renewal of information, the new relationship with work and the consolidation of digital technologies that modify the natural cognitive processes of perception, memory, imagination and reasoning. This new educational reality is seen in the expansion of online courses, which alter the boundaries of the physical spa...