The debate over the contribution of the Internet to democracy is farfrom settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the US to argue thatthe Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. This paper argues f...

social commerce, a new stream in e-commerce, enables hyper-informed consumers to support the businesses in new product development. hyper-informed consumers are the results of online communication provided by social media. these consumers have been empowered by web 2.0 technologies to have online communication, which drives value for the companies in new product development. trust is one the va...

the study discusses the traditional and online procedures and outlines of sdi service. the paper has also taken an initiative to formulate an exact matching technique between user’s subject interest and document profile with exploration along with electronic delivery of voluminous information technique. it also discusses some standard features and model of user profile. finally, the paper explo...

conclusions the majority of the trauma-related articles from the aaos patient education website have readability levels that may make comprehension difficult for a substantial portion of the patient population. results the mean (sd) grade level readability for all patient education articles was 8.8 (1.1). all but three of the articles had a readability score above the sixth-grade level. the rea...

in this study, attempts are made to recognize effective factors in enhancing the intension to use online stock trading application by real investors via combining the models of reasoned action and decomposed theory of planned behavior and merging it with dimensions of online stock trading. questionnaires designed and ditributed between 300 people attended in tehran stock exchange and agah broke...

this commentary discusses pertinent issues from hyosun kim’s paper on online prescription drug promotion. the study is well-designed and the findings highlight some of the consequences of the food and drug administration’s (fda’s) decision to deregulate online advertising of prescription drugs. while kim’s findings confirm some of the early concerns, they also provide a perspective of implement...

previous electronic commerce (ec) studies have found thatconsumer characteristics are important when considering issues related tothe acceptance of online shopping. however, most studies have focusedon a single product or similar products. the effects of different producttypes have been relatively neglected. to overcome this limitation, thepurpose of this study was to explore the effects of dif...