The present article seeks to investigate how pathological use of social networking sites (SNS) in mothers is related to their marital satisfaction,  mother-child relationship, and children’s behavioral problems. This study had a mixed methods research design with quantitative and qualitative components. In the quantitative part with correlational design, 323 mothers who had preschool children w...

This paper investigates how internet users’ perception of control over their personal information affects how likely they are to click on online advertising. The paper uses data from a randomized field experiment that examined the relative effectiveness of personalizing ad copy with posted personal information on a social networking website. The website gave users more control over their person...

With businesses seeking to seize the momentum of social media and social networking, technology-enabled social commerce has emerged to combine the power of online social networking with shopping. This study examines an emerging area in E-commerce, i.e., social commerce. Extending the online consumer behavior typology, this study categorizes online consumer behaviors into three types: transactio...

the purpose of this research is to identify and clarify factors which have positive effect among user satisfaction and their social networking through websites. The examined factors in this research are; innovation, ease of use, trustworthy and customer support which are defined as satisfaction factors. To obtain reliable research approaches and to have better result in this research four hypot...

Using social networking services is becoming more popular day by day. The websites of the social networks like facebook currently are among the most popular internet services just after giant portals such as Yahoo, MSN and search engines like Google. One of the main problems in analyzing these networks is the prediction of relationships between people in the network. The purpose of this paper i...

content creators: Some social and legal implications Abstract Consumers are increasingly turning to the online environment to provide information to assist them in making purchase decisions related to travel products. They often rely on travel recommendations from different sources, such as sellers, independent experts and, increasingly, other consumers. A new type of online content, user-gener...

With the proliferation of social networking and electronic commerce, social commerce helps people engage in various forms of online social commercial activities through sharing their product or service knowledge and experiences. A better understanding of users’ engagement in social commerce websites thus become increasingly important. Based on the attractiveness theory, this study proposes a re...

Social commerce is a form of commerce mediated by social media and social networking services (SNS)As a multifaceted phenomenon, social commerce can be studied from different angles and analyzed through the lens of various disciplines. This article examines website technical features to depict the transformation of e-commerce into social commerce. We first develop a conceptual framework to capt...

Social networking websites allow users to connect, organize and share information and ideas online. To date, the social software on these sites offer only basic functionality, which do not take advantage of the robust and stable network dynamics that emerge from typical tagging system usage. I propose that the field of social network analysis contains well defined and explored measures for anal...