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

International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 614-631

  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

Hierarchical bayesian; Local commerce; Microblogging; Mobile internet; Search costs; Social media; User behavior

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; MICROBLOGGING; MOBILE INTERNET; SEARCH COSTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

COSTS;

EID: 84884637912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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