Purpose When a concept is diffusely defined or, as this article argues,“taken for granted”, it
becomes very difficult to track such concept on the literature and have some continuity as …

Social network based applications have experienced exponential growth in recent years.
One of the reasons for this rise is that this application domain offers a particularly fertile …

This study unearths the motives for YouTube user engagement that has been
conceptualized as active participation and passive content consumption. In light of the Uses …

This study investigates why people choose to watch others play video games, on services
such as Twitch. Through a questionnaire study (N= 1097), we examine five distinct types of …

The purpose of this study is to discover the public's general perceptions of robots as frontline
employees in the hotel industry based on YouTube online reviews. This study applied data …

Since its foundation in 2005, YouTube, which is considered to be the largest video sharing
site, has undergone substantial changes. Over the last decade, the platform developed into …

During the last five years, game streaming has developed from a niche market into a
mainstream activity and the supply of services and technology on offer has exploded. Today …

The cloud-edge-terminal collaborative network (CETCN) is considered as a novel paradigm
for emerging applications owing to its huge potential in providing low-latency and ultra …

With companies such as Netflix and YouTube accounting for more than 50% of the peak
download traffic on North American fixed networks in 2015, video streaming represents a …

Mobile data traffic is currently growing exponentially and these rapid increases have caused
the backhaul data rate requirements to become the major bottleneck to reducing costs and …