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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
641 Views
24 Pages

Artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) is reshaping content production on e-commerce platforms, while also facilitating AIGC misuse, including fake reviews and low-quality marketing. These behaviors undermine the platform’s content qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
642 Views
16 Pages

Background: Short-form video platforms have become important channels for vaccine science communication, yet whether professionally produced vaccine content aligns with audience demand remains underexplored. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional qu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Promoting Research, Development and Access to Vaccines to Address Global Inequities—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,158 Views
27 Pages

This study explores the architectural framework of a value-driven token economy on a blockchain content platform and critically evaluates the relationship between blockchain’s decentralization and sustainable economic practices. The existing li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,410 Views
18 Pages

17 November 2022

With the increasing transformation of using distance learning platforms in educational institutions, deaf student instructors in schools and universities have no specialized platform for remotely delivering learning content for deaf students with sig...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
308 Views
17 Pages

4 September 2026

As sports content platforms increasingly occupy a central role in consumers’ media consumption and fitness-related activities, understanding the factors that encourage sustained user engagement has become an important research concern. Although...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation in Sports and Communities: Ecosystems Driven by Technology Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
593 Views
17 Pages

24 August 2026

This study examines how social media platform environments influence adolescent consumer replication behavior specifically within sports content, athletic apparel, and active lifestyles through psychological engagement mechanisms, including parasocia...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,275 Views
36 Pages

27 March 2026

The rapid rise of live-streaming e-commerce has fostered a new “content clipping” model, in which secondary creators edit and republish anchors’ live-streaming content to promote product sales. While this model can expand market rea...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning and Evolution in Games)
  • Article
  • Open Access
98 Citations
16,602 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Low-Cost Open-Hardware Platform for Monitoring Soil Water Content and Multiple Soil-Air-Vegetation Parameters

  • Giovanni Bitella,
  • Roberta Rossi,
  • Rocco Bochicchio,
  • Michele Perniola and
  • Mariana Amato

21 October 2014

Monitoring soil water content at high spatio-temporal resolution and coupled to other sensor data is crucial for applications oriented towards water sustainability in agriculture, such as precision irrigation or phenotyping root traits for drought to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agriculture and Forestry: Sensors, Technologies and Procedures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,121 Views
32 Pages

7 January 2026

This study develops an immersive marine Information and Communication Technology (ICT) convergence framework designed to enhance coastal climate resilience by improving accessibility, visualization, and communication of scientific research on Dokdo (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Collaborative Approaches for Sustainable Engineering and Industrial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,158 Views
28 Pages

With the rapid expansion of user-generated content (UGC) platforms, digital empowerment has emerged as a crucial strategy for enhancing platform competitiveness. This study investigates how different digital empowerment models—no digital empowe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,036 Views
19 Pages

This study examines how user-generated content (UGC) is incorporated and negotiated within platformized public service media (PSM) journalism, using the German content network funk as a case study. Based on a qualitative content analysis of selected...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,853 Views
31 Pages

27 November 2025

Digital content platforms rely on value co-creation among users, creators, and the platform. Content value, including historical accumulation, influences platforms’ pricing strategies, quality decisions, and monetization potential. This study e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
16,066 Views
15 Pages

Subscription-based news platforms (such as “Apple News+” or “Readly”) that bundle content from different publishers into one comprehensive package and offer it to media users at a fixed monthly rate are a new way of accessing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,723 Views
18 Pages

8 August 2017

In this paper, we present a tiny networked mobile platform, termed Tiny-Web-Thing (T-Wing), which allows the sharing of data-intensive content among objects in cyber physical systems. The object includes mobile platforms like a smartphone, and Intern...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models, Systems and Applications for Sensors in Cyber Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,328 Views
31 Pages

18 August 2021

This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the borderless networked society. We explore the extent to which internet undertakings should be subject to state regulation, in light of Canada’s ongoing debate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Media and Communication Theory and the Regulation of the Networked Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
299 Views
23 Pages

28 September 2026

Rapidly increasing volumes of visual content on online travel platforms require hotel photographs not only to be classified accurately but also to be presented to users within a meaningful information organization structure. Accordingly, the effectiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Image and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
15,211 Views
26 Pages

This research explores how the partitioned pricing strategy of premium subscriptions affects user willingness to purchase with two studies. Study 1 finds that all-inclusive pricing is more effective than traditional partitioned pricing (i.e., partiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,437 Views
21 Pages

Solvers’ wide and continuous participation is imperative for the sustainable development of online crowdsourcing platforms (OCPs). Prior studies have deeply investigated what and how solvers’ motives and demographics, task attributes, requester attri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,535 Views
21 Pages

The success of content community platforms (CCPs) heavily depends on the active engagement of users attracted by externally generated content. Previous research has highlighted the differentiation among various forms of user engagement, such as likes...

(This article belongs to the Collection Utilizing Models for e-Business Decision-Making: From Data to Wisdom)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,556 Views
10 Pages

14 October 2020

The interactive mechanism among platform operators, content producers, and information receivers is increasingly complex in human–computer symbiosis. The purpose of this study is to identify the interactive value among platform operators, conte...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,713 Views
12 Pages

Sustainability of Health and Fitness Information Platform Ecosystem

  • Chia-Wen Lee,
  • Tzu-Chun Huang,
  • Wei-Shiang Lai and
  • Ching Li

17 May 2021

The roles of content producers, information receivers, and platform operators affect the stability of the governance of informational platforms. The purpose of this study was to identify and explore the sustainable factors of a platform ecosystem for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,698 Views
16 Pages

11 May 2023

The huge traffic of e-commerce platforms provides a wide market for stores, but the fierce competition among stores for onsite traffic increases the cost of onsite promotion for stores, and it also reduces the effectiveness of promotion. Therefore, m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Operations and Supply Chain Management with the Application of Mathematical Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,356 Views
52 Pages

General Software Platform and Content Description Format for Assembly and Maintenance Task Based on Augmented Reality

  • Yiming Shen,
  • Shuntaro Ueda,
  • Yuichiro Fujimoto,
  • Taishi Sawabe and ,
  • Masayuki Kanbara and
  • Hirokazu Kato
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 February 2023

Augmented reality (AR) support systems have proven to be effective in supporting various tasks, but are not yet widely used in real-world applications due to their high development costs. Although several AR authoring tools have been proposed for con...

(This article belongs to the Collection Augmented Reality Technologies, Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,064 Views
26 Pages

Digital game consumption increasingly unfolds across video platforms, comment sections, and community discussions, where platform visibility, creator-mediated information, interaction metrics, and commercialization signals shape users’ expectat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies on Digital Platforms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,517 Views
31 Pages

Visual social commerce platforms now mediate much of brand communication and conversion, yet managers still lack clear guidance on how brands and creators should technically design posts that consistently achieve high user engagement under budget and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,854 Views
18 Pages

Intelligent Analysis Cloud Platform for Soil Moisture-Nutrients-Salinity Content Based on Quantitative Remote Sensing

  • Teng Zhang,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Ao Wang,
  • Ruilin Wang and ,
  • Hongyan Chen and
  • Peng Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 December 2022

Quickly obtaining accurate soil quality information is the premise for accurate agricultural production and increased crop yield. With the development of the digital information industry, smart agriculture has become a new trend in agricultural devel...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
404 Views
31 Pages

22 September 2026

Extended reality (XR) technologies, including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), offer new opportunities for immersive and experiential learning; however, their spatial and interactive characteristics are difficult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Smart Learning in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,435 Views
34 Pages

With the widespread integration of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) into e-commerce platforms, understanding how users perceive, evaluate, and respond to such content has become a critical issue for both academia and industry. This st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) in Electronic Commerce: Innovations, Applications and Implications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
13,766 Views
22 Pages

COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee

  • Olga Papadopoulou,
  • Evangelia Kartsounidou and
  • Symeon Papadopoulos

23 November 2022

The overwhelming amount of information and misinformation on social media platforms has created a new role that these platforms are inclined to take on, that of the Internet custodian. Mainstream platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are...

(This article belongs to the Collection Innovative People-Centered Solutions Applied to Industries, Cities and Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
421 Views
20 Pages

4 October 2026

Social media platforms are increasingly reshaping content moderation through participatory governance models. In January 2025, Meta announced that its third-party fact-checking program in the United States would be replaced by Community Notes, raisin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reshaping Social Reality: Digital Societies and the Data-Based Approach)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,150 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2025

This study investigates how follower size influences social media influencers’ sourcing behavior and credibility assessment rigor when producing content for their audiences. Grounded in Social Capital Theory, this study examines the tension bet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–Computer Interaction in Marketing: Emerging Interfaces, Cognitive Engagement, and Child–Computer Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
8,531 Views
22 Pages

Scaling Effects on Chlorophyll Content Estimations with RGB Camera Mounted on a UAV Platform Using Machine-Learning Methods

  • Yahui Guo,
  • Guodong Yin,
  • Hongyong Sun,
  • Hanxi Wang and ,
  • Shouzhi Chen,
  • J. Senthilnath,
  • Jingzhe Wang and
  • Yongshuo Fu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

9 September 2020

Timely monitoring and precise estimation of the leaf chlorophyll contents of maize are crucial for agricultural practices. The scale effects are very important as the calculated vegetation index (VI) were crucial for the quantitative remote sensing....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV Imagery for Engineering Applications Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques (UAV-AI))
  • Article
  • Open Access
255 Views
22 Pages

Audience engagement in the form of comments and likes has long been known to influence the visibility of content creators, but little has been discussed in the ways that these interaction ecologies diverge between platforms. Using poetry posts surfac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creator Futures: Reorganizing Media and Journalism Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,530 Views
36 Pages

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital marketing and electronic commerce, short-form content—particularly on platforms like Twitter (now X)—has become pivotal for real-time branding, community engagement, and product promotion. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
675 Views
18 Pages

13 October 2026

This article examines the extent to which private technology companies bear responsibility for respecting human rights, particularly freedom of expression, when governing social media content through artificial intelligence (AI), and how that respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,148 Views
14 Pages

This study aimed to make an empirical analysis of the effects that the selection attributes of subscription services have on purchase intentions and continuous use intentions, based on the perceived value of digital platform-based subscription servic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,407 Views
19 Pages

The COVID-19 outbreak, a recent major public health emergency, was the first national health crisis since China entered the era of mobile social media. In this context, the public posted many quarantine-related posts for help on social media. Most pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Communication and Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
98 Citations
12,127 Views
20 Pages

Factors Affecting the Use of Smart Mobile Examination Platforms by Universities’ Postgraduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Study

  • Muhammad Turki Alshurideh,
  • Barween Al Kurdi,
  • Ahmad Qasim AlHamad,
  • Said A. Salloum and ,
  • Shireen Alkurdi,
  • Ahlam Dehghan,
  • Mohammad Abuhashesh and
  • Ra’ed Masa’deh
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Recent years have seen an increasingly widespread use of online learning technologies. This has prompted universities to make huge investments in technology to augment their position in the face of extensive competition and to enhance their students’...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing the Consequences of the COVID-19 in the Every-Day Working, Learning, and Interacting Life)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,131 Views
11 Pages

23 March 2021

With the rapid growth of mobile media, large quantities of mobile content have been generated by moving entities. Some content generation patterns become popular for users and professional organizations, e.g., user-generated content, professionally-g...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
21,344 Views
27 Pages

Exploring Influencing Marketing—Consumer Insights and Creators’ Perspectives

  • Anita Cornelia Szakal,
  • Gabriel Brătucu,
  • Eliza Ciobanu,
  • Ioana Bianca Chițu and ,
  • Ana Alexandra Mocanu and
  • Gheorghe Ialomițianu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 February 2024

Internet users consistently lean towards influencers who actively participate in their respective areas of interest, providing thorough information and genuine product reviews. These practices have the potential to positively influence the decision-m...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,416 Views
14 Pages

An Enhanced Methodology for Creating Digital Twins within a Paleontological Museum Using Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning Techniques

  • Markos Konstantakis,
  • Georgios Trichopoulos,
  • John Aliprantis,
  • Konstantinos Michalakis and ,
  • George Caridakis,
  • Athina Thanou,
  • Anastasios Zafeiropoulos,
  • Stamatina Sklavounou,
  • Christos Psarras and
  • Efterpi Koskeridou
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

22 August 2023

In recent years, researchers in the field of natural heritage have intensified their efforts to develop new ways to enhance the promotion and accessibility of natural content in order to attract more audiences using virtual representations of physica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage and 3D Assets Utilisation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
621 Views
21 Pages

Democratic accountability in journalism has depended on a recoverable attribution chain: a named journalist who gathered information from identified sources and whose editorial choices can be traced, challenged, and corrected. This article reframes t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Ritual Functioning of Online Media)
  • Article
  • Open Access
841 Views
29 Pages

The rapid digitalization of the media and publishing industry has deepened systemic asymmetries in resources, power, and institutional rights. These asymmetries create fundamental barriers to the economic–institutional sustainability of digital...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Platform Analytics for Societal Development Across Sectors)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
4,372 Views
15 Pages

The increasing presence of minors on digital platforms raises complex legal questions regarding their privacy, data protection, and the limits of parental authority in supervising their online activities. This entry analyses the legal framework appli...

(This article belongs to the Collection Encyclopedia of Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
350 Views
23 Pages

30 September 2026

User-generated content (UGC) is increasingly used to inform heritage planning, yet platform visibility may not reflect the spatial elements that require management attention. Using Hangzhou Steel Park as a case study, this study compares 3521 online...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Heritage and Spatial Regeneration in the Age of Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
718 Views
31 Pages

Crisis Disinformation and Verification Dynamics in the València 2024 DANA

  • Juan José Climent-Ferrer,
  • J. Ernesto Solanes,
  • Ana Martí-Testón,
  • Flavio Moriniello and ,
  • Adolfo Muñoz and
  • Luis Gracia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study examines the circulation of disinformation during the 2024 València DANA (high-altitude isolated depression), which produced torrential rainfall across eastern and southern Spain between 29 and 31 October 2024. Using a quantitative...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Web Data Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
823 Views
22 Pages

As content creators increasingly assume roles once associated with journalism, marketing, and entrepreneurship, generative AI is reshaping the conditions under which professional value is produced and recognized. Drawing on ten semi-structured interv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creator Futures: Reorganizing Media and Journalism Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
804 Views
19 Pages

5 August 2026

This paper examines mainstream platform moderation as it encounters contemporary pagan religious practice in Europe and reads what it finds as a symptom of a wider condition: the algorithm functions less as a neutral tool than as a productive instrum...

(This article belongs to the Collection Epistemology, Methodology and Ontology of a Post-Digital Social Inquiry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,392 Views
20 Pages

2 February 2025

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals used in various products, such as firefighting foams and non-stick cookware, due to their resistance to heat and degradation. However, these same properties make them persistent in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,996 Views
24 Pages

A Critical Approach to Technofeudalism in EU Law: The Architecture of Big Tech’s Influence

  • Tamás Dezső Ziegler,
  • Thomas Buijnink,
  • Reiner Diederik Duvenage,
  • Sarolta Szabó and
  • Gergely Gosztonyi

15 July 2026

The article critically examines the emergence of technofeudalism within the European Union’s legal framework, drawing on the theoretical contributions of Yanis Varoufakis, Alfred C. Yen, and Katrina Geddes. We argue that the EU’s historic...

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