Lonely and Sick: The Role of Social Media in Consumer Practices of Relief
ABSTRACT Loneliness is increasingly recognized as a major mental health concern, yet the role of social media in alleviating it remains poorly understood. This study asks how social media help consumers cope with loneliness amid chronic illness. Focusing on women living with endometriosis, an under‐recognized and often stigmatized condition marked by ...
Beatrice Medici +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Leveraging social media to promote targeted advertisements and key messaging for optimal recruitment into clinical research. [PDF]
Peters CJ +6 more
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Market Interviews in Shared Traumatic Reality: A Trauma‐Informed, Co‐Constructed Framework
ABSTRACT Qualitative market interviews may become trauma‐sensitive when ordinary questions about consumption, work, finance, mobility, identity, professional continuity, or institutional trust intersect with displacement, insecurity, loss, or ongoing threat.
Nataliia Kochkina +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Quality of Allergic Rhinitis Content Across Social Media Platforms. [PDF]
Kwon E +6 more
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Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective
ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva +4 more
wiley +1 more source
HelloType1 Digital Education Platform for Individuals With Type 1 Diabetes in Southeast Asia: Data Analytics Study. [PDF]
Ng SM +10 more
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ABSTRACT Digital marketplaces sell connection, yet loneliness persists among their users. Marketing scholarship has largely examined loneliness as a consumer‐level deficit, studying how individuals compensate through consumption. How digital environments themselves structure the conditions under which loneliness is experienced has received less ...
Tianhao Yang +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Social Media Reactions to Sex Toy Criminalization in Ghana: Cross-Sectional Sentiment and Text Network Analysis. [PDF]
Agbeve AS +6 more
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Are Start‐Up Acquisitions by Dominant Firms Driving Innovation or Killing Competition?
ABSTRACT This paper develops a sequential model to examine start‐up acquisitions in markets with network externalities, incorporating a pre‐entry strategic buyout option that allows the incumbent to integrate the start‐up's innovation, followed by post‐entry expenditure on coordination advertising, and defensive pricing strategies.
Adele Whelan, Kate Hynes
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Social media use, online racism, and mental health among Black Emerging Adults in the United States. [PDF]
Badejoh OO +6 more
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