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Information Disclosure On A Chinese Social Media Platform, Lixuan Zhang, Clinton Amos, Iryna Pentina, Bj Blackwood
Information Disclosure On A Chinese Social Media Platform, Lixuan Zhang, Clinton Amos, Iryna Pentina, Bj Blackwood
Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2014
The nature of social media encourages people to contribute voluntarily to public web and inevitably, leaving a persistent and cumulative repository of personal information. Aware of the privacy risks, about one third of the Internet users in the United States have expressed concerns of their personal privacy. However, users are often cavalier in the protection of their own data profile. There is often a discrepancy between users’ intentions to protect privacy and their actual heavier. This behavior is often terms as “privacy paradox”. The privacy paradox might arise because users balance between risks and benefits of disclosing information on social …
Are Qr Codes Here To Stay Or Are They A Thing Of The Past?, Monica B. Fine
Are Qr Codes Here To Stay Or Are They A Thing Of The Past?, Monica B. Fine
Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2014
Quick response (QR) codes, a type of two-dimensional barcode, are a marketing tool used all around the world. Particularly, in Japan and China QR codes have been gaining popularity. Early adopters with higher education and recent promotional marketing campaigns are utilizing this mobile, information-sharing tool. QR codes are now widely used as a marketing tool by many companies. This research investigates consumers’ perception of QR codes. An increasing amount of firms and sales representatives are using QR codes as a channel to market their products/services to their customers’ mobile devices. The following questions will be the focus of this study: …