With more scholarly journals being distributed electronically rather than in print form, we know that researchers download many articles. What is less well known is how journal articles are used after they are initially downloaded. To what extent are they saved, uploaded, tweeted, or otherwise shared? How does this reuse increase their total use and value to research and how does it influence l...

In most P2P business models, in which users purchase the media, it is necessary to securely identify the user in order to facilitate payment. In this paper, we present a technique for allowing the widespread sharing of certain media formats including music using a method that keeps track of media possession and other marketing information, but in a way that does not require user identification....

Cultural attributes of employees affect organizations in several different ways through their impact on organizational goals and decision-making processes. Social media create ample opportunities for organizations to improve competitiveness and efficiency of marketing and communications. We empirically investigate the impact of employee cultural dimensions on social media usage at work and at h...

In today’s technology-centric world, people are becoming increasingly dependent on the Internet. The most common use of the Internet is through social media, which are used to communicate, share, collaborate, and connect. However, continued usage of a hedonic system can be linked with compulsion or addiction. Since problematic usage/behaviors can lead to negative outcomes, this manuscript aims ...

Based on a study of 1440 Swiss teenagers in 2003, highly complementary (instead of substitutive) relationships are found between the usage of various technical communication media as well as between media usage and face-to-face interactions. Males seem particularly prone to use all media channels in a complementary fashion. Among both genders, there is a particularly strong complementarity betw...

The relations between adolescents' habitual usage of media violence and their tendency to engage in aggressive and prosocial behavior in a school setting were examined in a cross-sectional study with 1688 7th and 8th graders in Germany who completed measures of violent media exposure and normative acceptance of aggression. For each participant, ratings of prosocial and aggressive behavior were ...

Screen media usage, sleep time and socio-demographic features are related to adolescents' academic performance, but interrelations are little explored. This paper describes these interrelations and behavioral profiles clustered in low and high academic performance. A nationally representative sample of 3,095 Spanish adolescents, aged 12 to 18, was surveyed on 15 variables linked to the purpose ...

Social Media Services like Social Network Sites and Microblogging services gain increasing attention from enterprises. This is on the one hand for internal usage but as well for utilizing these services, with hundred millions of users, for marketing purposes. Partly this is induced by customers losing trust in conventional advertisements. However, to date only very limited research exists on th...

As more business-to-business organizations consider using social media to attract customers, the acceptance of social media technology among employees becomes crucial. We assume particular factors to matter for organizational users as compared to private users. Study 1 which is based on 46 in-depth interviews explores six system design features that are critical for social media usage among org...

Based on a study of 1440 Swiss teenagers in 2003, higly complementary (instead of substitutive) relationships are found between the usage of various technical communication media as well as between media usage and face-to-face interactions. Males seem particularly prone to use all media channels in a complementary fashion. Among both genders, there is a particularly strong complementarity betwe...