"Fans and fan cultures: Tourism, consumerism, and social media," by Henrik Linden and Sara Linden

Do linden trees kill bees? Reviewing the causes of bee deaths on silver linden (Tilia tomentosa).

For decades, linden trees (basswoods or lime trees), and particularly silver linden (Tilia tomentosa), have been linked to mass bee deaths. This phenomenon is often attributed to the purported occurrence of the carbohydrate mannose, which is toxic to bees, in Tilia nectar. In this review, however, we conclude that from existing literature there is no experimental evidence for toxicity to bees i...

Linden Ashcroft Alba Gilabert Annamária Lehoczky

, © Ashcroft et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. In this month's journal club at University Rovira i Virgili's Centre for Climate Change we explored the topic of Southern Hemispher...

Review of Emblems and Alchemy, by Alison Adams & Stanton J. Linden, eds

Does Social Media Brand Community Membership Translate to Real Sales? A Critical Evaluation of Purchase Behavior by Fans and Non-Fans of a Facebook Fan Page

The emerging social media brand communities provide a good platform for marketers to promote brands to their members. Marketers are devoting time and efforts to building their social media fan pages; however, the elusive question of whether their social media fans exhibit any behavioural loyalty in terms of actual purchase behaviour remains unanswered. Based on the characteristics of social med...

Political consumerism: Civic engagement and the social media connection

An ongoing debate concerns the extent to which political consumerism constitutes political behavior. To address this debate, researchers have examined several predictors of political consumerism, but have not focused on its communicative dimensions, especially with respect to digital media. In this study we conceptualize political consumerism as a form of civic engagement, and we theorize that ...