We conducted an interpretive, qualitative research study to investigate herding behavior around trending posts about disasters on Sina Weibo, one of the most popular social media websites in China. Our preliminary results show that in response to uncertain situations, users engage in sensemaking (Seidel, 2013) and become emotionally engaged (Taylor, 2015) as they converge around trending posts ...

Vol. LI (June 2014), 300–319 *Ye Hu is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Rex Yuxing Du is Hurley Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: rexdu@ bauer.uh.edu), and Sina Damangir is a doctoral student (e-mail: sdamangir@ uh.edu), C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. The authors thank three anonymous JMR reviewers for their numerous inputs in improving the...

Sina Weibo is the most popular Twitter-like microblog service in China.

Tafsir Falsafi (philosophical exegesis) is one of the Islamic intellectual resource that have occupied intellectualism Muslim thinkers since early period. However, epistemological side interpretation model was problematic, as it creates controversy among readers. Today, still frequently found from some Quranic studies. This paper discusses Muhammad Husain al-Zahabi’s thoughts on philosophical i...

Web servers are usually located in a well-organized data center where these servers connect with the outside Internet directly through backbones. Meanwhile, the application-layer distributed denials of service (AL-DDoS) attacks are critical threats to the Internet, particularly to those business web servers. Currently, there are somemethods designed to handle the AL-DDoS attacks, but most of th...

The control of voices within a country is as important to a censor as blocking information from outside. This control must extend to social media. Screening every post prior to publication is not practical; instead, censors find and delete objectionable content after it has been posted. This paper presents GhostPost, a distributed system that conveniently and safely restores deleted posts on an...

The practice and study of medicine in Persia has a long and prolific history. The ancient Iranian medicine was combined by different medical traditions from Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China and Greece for more than 4000 years and merged to form what became the nucleus and foundation of medical practice in the European countries in the 13th century. The Iranian academic centers like Jundishapur ...