Music blogging, online sampling, and the long tail

Information Systems Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1056-1067

  Dewan, Sanjeev ^a   Ramaprasad, Jui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blogs; Long tail; Music industry; Observational learning; Social interactions; Social media; Word of mouth

Indexed keywords

SALES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES;

LONG TAIL; MUSIC INDUSTRY; OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; WORD OF MOUTH;

BLOGS;

EID: 84871582212     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1110.0405     Document Type: Article

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