Despite the perceived importance of media in the spread of and resistance against Islamist extremism, little is known about how Muslims use different kinds of media to get information about religious issues, and what sources they trust when doing so. This paper reports the results of a large, random sample survey among Muslims in seven countries Southeast Asia, West Africa and Western Europe, w...

This pap er presents a stochastic model that identifies network effect and customer orientation empowerment as strong antecedents of trustworthiness and trust in social media network environment. As Trust is emerging as a critical influencer of consumer behavior in organizations, social media has become the facilitator or the enabler of this influence. This paper aims to explore and examine the...

Brand communities and social media often overlap. Social media is an ideal environment for building brand communities. However, there is limited research about the benefits and consequences of brand communities established on social media platforms. This study addresses this issue by developing a model depicting how consumers’ relationship with the elements of a brand community based on social ...

social commerce, a new stream in e-commerce, enables hyper-informed consumers to support the businesses in new product development. hyper-informed consumers are the results of online communication provided by social media. these consumers have been empowered by web 2.0 technologies to have online communication, which drives value for the companies in new product development. trust is one the va...

Due to the increased incorporation of external sources media agencies face the challenge of providing high-trust media to their customers. Automatic image processing approaches still do not bridge the semantic gap to identify fakes. Complementary community-based approaches lack real-time media distribution for improved awareness and base trust on subjective opinions instead of objective actions...

A significant body of literature has addressed trust in distributed teams; however the issues of 1) trust in distributed software development teams, 2) the evolution of trust, and 3) the role of communication media in trust development; have not been adequately addressed. The objective of this paper is to examine the evolution of cognitive trust, and to test a hypothesized model using pilot dat...

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, public trust in conventional medicine is relatively high. There is reason to believe that public trust in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is rated lower. The aim of this study is to gain insight into public trust in CAM and the determinants that lie at the root of it. We hypothesized that public trust in CAM is related to (perceived) institutional gua...

Trust is a concept that has been widely studied in e-commerce since it represents a key issue in building successful customer-supplier relationships. In this sense, social software represents a powerful channel for establishing a direct communication with customers. As a consequence, companies are now investing in social media for building their social digital brand and strengthening relationsh...

BACKGROUND Incidents in health care happen every now and then. Incidents are often extensively covered by the news media. In this study, we investigated the impact of an incident in a Dutch hospital on public trust in health care in the population living in the vicinity of where the incident took place and in the national population. News media coverage of the incident started in Fall 2008. M...

Social media has led to paradigm shifts in ways people work and do business, interact and socialize, learn and obtain knowledge. So much so that social media has established itself as an important spatial extension of this nation’s historicity and challenges. Regardless of the enabling reputation and recommendation features through social networks embedded in the social media system, the overfl...