This paper studies two types of social influence in an online music community: observational learning influence based on aggregate consumption data, and social network influence based on music consumption by friends in social proximity. The analysis uses a variety of empirical methods, applied to highly granular user listening and “favoriting” behavior on the largest music blog aggregator site....

One of the main weaknesses of studies on older Internet users is a lack of differentiation among users. This study sought to explore whether gerontographics, an approach to segmentation of older adults based on individual psychological and physical well-being, is applicable in research on older Internet users. For that purpose, the study examined members of online communities for senior citizen...

With the abundance in variety of products available online, many online retailers provide sales rankings for available products to make it easier for the consumer to find popular products. Successful implementation of product rankings on online platform was done a decade ago by Amazon and more recently by Apple’s App store. However, none of these market providers provide actual do...

Music mood has been recognized as an important access point for music and many online music services support browsing by mood. However, how people judge music mood has not been well studied in the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) domain. In particular, people's cultural background is often assumed to be an important factor in music mood perception, but this assumption has not been verified by ...

PUBLISHED BY THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY 1540-7993/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY 73 F or the past few years, the recorded music industry has blamed the “falloff” in CD sales on piracy, and they have lobbied heavily against technologies like file-sharing and CD writers. Now, I am against piracy and in favor of artists being paid for their work, but before we start adding special-pu...

The music industry is rapidly moving from analog to digital, and most of the big portal sites provide commercial online music streaming services. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerabilities of commercial online music streaming services provided by Korea’s major portal sites (Dosirak, Cyworld, and Naver). We show attacks on commercial online music streaming services that lead to an infringemen...

Numerous firms are taking advantage of interactive technologies to personalize their interactions with users. They invest many resources in personalization to provide personalized services of higher quality in the hope of more business opportunities and higher customer satisfaction. Despite the proliferation of personalized web services worldwide, prior research on how personalization attracts ...

This paper aims to examine the effect of price discounts on store image and eventually consumers’ purchase intention in online shopping context of cell-phones. For this purpose, two cell-phone brands; i.e., Nokia and HTC were selected to study among 248 professors, employees and university students from University of Tabriz, Iran during April-June 2012. Required data was collected through quest...

Measuring peer influence in social networks is an important business and policy question that has become increasingly salient with the development of globally interconnected ICT networks. However, in spite of the new data sources available today, researchers still face many of the same measurement challenges that have been present in the literature for over four decades: homophily, reflection a...

After several years of research and development, PROBADO Music—a multimodal digital music library system—is now made available for the public. To allow access to anyone from anywhere, we have prepared a collection of public domain music material that is accessible through our system. Besides streaming and presenting digital music documents (scanned sheet music, audio recordings, and lyrics), PR...