How is the mobile internet different? Search costs and local activities

Information Systems Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 613-631

  Ghose, Anindya ^a   Goldfarb, Avi ^b   Han, Sang Pil ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Hierarchical Bayesian methods; Local interests; Microblogging; Mobile Internet; Ranking effects; Recency effects; Search costs; Social media

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; COSTS; MOBILE PHONES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELEPHONE SETS;

COGNITIVE LOADS; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; LOCAL INTERESTS; MICROBLOGGING; MOBILE INTERNET; RANKING EFFECTS; RECENCY EFFECTS; SEARCH COSTS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84878238036     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1120.0453     Document Type: Article

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