Social interactions and personal tastes shape our consumption behaviors of cultural products. In this study, we present a computational model of a cultural market and we aim to analyze the behavior of the consumer population as an emergent phenomena. Our results suggest that the final market shares of the cultural products dramatically depend on the consumer heterogeneity and social interaction...

one of the common ways to identifying and representing himself, especially in the modern age, cultural consumption. often people in cultural consumption, types of commodities and precious symbols, in order to create favorable images of themselves in the minds of others are taking.the choice of specific pattern of cultural consumption, cultural preferences or practices, the need for cultural res...

Regional economies and communities are facing increasing economic, social and cultural hardship in many parts of the world as economies adjust to the demands of the new orders of commerce and governance. A part of this is the paradox that regional economies and communities can be either enhanced or disadvantaged by information and communication technologies (ICT) products and services. The pote...

Recent trends reveal that models of culture aid in mapping the design and analysis of information and communication technologies. Therefore, models of culture are powerful tools to guide the building of instructional products and services. This research examines the construction of the culture based model (CBM), a model of culture that evolved from historical and linguistic analyses of instruct...

This article examines whether the attention to cultural products on the Internet is more democratically structured (in terms of gender and genre distributions) than in traditional print media, and how these types of media attention affect commercial success. For the U.S. fiction book releases in February 2009, we analyze consumer ratings at the web store Amazon.com and the social network site G...

C. Samuel Craig, William H. Greene, and Susan P. Douglas Submitted January 2005 Accepted April 2005 Journal of International Marketing ) 2005, American Marketing Association Vol. 13, No. 4, 2005, pp. 80-103 ISSN 1069-031X (print) 1547-7215 (electronic) Culture matters for products with significant cultural content. The current study examines the impact of cultural context on the box office perf...