As a new type of e-commerce, social commerce is an emerging marketing form in which business is conducted via social networking platforms. It is playing an increasingly important role in influencing consumers’ purchase intentions. Social commerce uses friendships on social networking platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, as the vehicle for social sharing about products or sellers to induce i...

A serious problem in eParticipation projects is citizen engagement – citizens do not necessarily become more willing to participate simply because net-services are provided for them. Most forms of eParticipation in democratic contexts are, however, dependent on citizen engagement, interaction and social networking because democratic systems favour the interests of larger groups of citizens – th...

Online Social Networks (OSN) of today represent centralized repositories of personally idenfiable information (PII) of their users. Considering their impressive growth they arguably are the most popular service on the Internet, both by technology savvy but even more by comparibly inexpert audiences, today. Being voluntarily maintained and automatically exploitable, they are a promising and chal...