Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore why young people use and participate in
social networking sites (SNSs) with specific reference to Bebo. Design/methodology …

Her geçen gün gelişen bilgi ve iletişim teknolojisindeki gelişmeler interneti günlük yaşamın
vazgeçilmezleri arasına almıştır. Özellikle sosyal ağların yaygınlaşması, günümüzde artık …

Web-based social networks (WBSNs) are online communities where participants can
establish relationships and share resources across the Web with other users. In recent …

Social networks play important roles in the Semantic Web: knowledge management,
information retrieval, ubiquitous computing, and so on. We propose a social network …

Trust has been empirically established as one of the key attributes in business to customer
(B2C) e-commerce. The effect of measures to build and maintain trust in B2C Online …

Lack of trust in online transactions has been cited, by past scholars, as the main reason for
the abhorrence of online shopping. In this paper we proposed a model and provided …

Health care and biomedicine are among the largest and most complex areas of human
knowledge. All of us are potential patients and it is generally assumed that a long, healthy …

Social networking websites are a relatively new and wildly popular form of technology. While
millions of users have adopted this technology, it is not currently known whether these users …

Popular online social networks such as Friendster and MySpace do more than simply reveal
the superficial structure of social connectedness—the rich meanings bottled within social …

Reporting on a study of internet portals in rural Scotland, the paper examines the
discrepancy between the much theorised use of the internet to afford external market reach …