Blogging becomes a popular way for a Web user to publish information on the Web. Bloggers write blog posts, share their likes and dislikes, voice their opinions, provide suggestions, report news, and form groups in Blogosphere. As its size doubled for every 6 months, Blogosphere is expanding with about 175,500 daily blogs. Bloggers form their virtual communities of similar interests. Activities...

This study compares six metrics commonly used to identify influential players in two of Canada’s largest political Twitter communities based on the users, and ranking order of users, identified by each metric. All tweets containing the hashtag #CPC, representing the Conservative Party of Canada (government), and #NDP, representing the New Democratic Party of Canada (official opposition), were c...

In this article we extend and implement the forward search algorithm for identifying atypical subjects/observations in factor analysis models. The forward search has been mainly developed for detecting aberrant observations in regression models ( Atkinson, 1994 ) and in multivariate methods such as cluster and discriminant analysis ( Atkinson, Riani, & Cerioli, 2004 ). Three data sets and a sim...

This paper presents an analysis of customer choice criteria and multiple banking. In particular, the study presents an analysis of the relative importance of various choice criteria for main and secondary banks, highlights differences and considers marketing implications. A quantitative methodology incorporating 495 respondents is employed in the analysis. Findings show significant differences ...

Social media and social networks contribute to shape the debate on societal and policy issues, but the dynamics of this process is not well understood. As a case study, we monitor Twitter activity on a wide range of environmental issues. First, we identify influential users and communities by means of a network analysis of the retweets. Second, we carry out a content-based classification of the...

With the technology advances, online shopping has experienced a phenomenal growth. In line with such phenomenon and its relevancy, considerable number of studies have shown an interest within this area. Although recent researches particularly addressed consumer’s behavior, findings were inconsistent. Thereby, further been called for. The present study aims to investigate effect few variables de...