This research studies microblogging as word-of-mouth communication from a cross-cultural perspective. It compares microblogging contents on Twitter in the US and Weibo in China. After coding microblogs on four smart-phone brands in a month period for their content categories, the author computed the relation between the proportional occurrence of each category and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions...

Humans are equipped with some universal or language-specific abilities to recognize emotions. However, because of the different emotional contents in diverse languages and the relevant cultural differences, humans with different cultural backgrounds own different metapragmatical abilities to recognize and express emotions. A hypothesis concerning emotional effects about intonation and particle ...

Web 2.0, also known as the Social Web, marks a new philosophy where users are both the main actors and the content producers: users write blogs and comments, they tag, link, and upload photos, pictures, videos, and podcasts. As a step further, Mobile 2.0 adapts Web 2.0 technology to mobile users. We intend to study how Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 together can be applied to the cultural heritage sect...

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Web 2.0 marks a new philosophy where user is the main actor and content producer: users write blogs and comments, they tag, link, and upload photos, pictures, videos, and podcasts. As a step further, Mobile 2.0 adapts Web 2.0 technology to mobile users. We intend to study how Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 together can be applied to the cultural heritage sector. A number of cultural institutions and mu...

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................................................................................................ I ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.................................................................................... III LIST OF PUBLICATIONS..................................................................................V CONTENTS ....................................................................................

Contents List of figures and tables , ix About the authors xi Acknowledgements xiii List of acronyms , xv Introduction xvii