False idols: Unpacking the opportunities and challenges of falsity in the context of virtual influencers

S Sands, C Ferraro, V Demsar, G Chandler - Business Horizons, 2022 - Elsevier
Influencer marketing has become a dominant and targeted means for brands to connect with
consumers, but it also brings risks associated with influencer transgression and reputation …

Social media and innovation: A systematic literature review and future research directions

H Bhimani, AL Mention, PJ Barlatier - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2019 - Elsevier
Social media are privileged vehicles to generate rich data created with unprecedented multi-
faceted insights to drive faster ideation and commercialisation of client-centric innovations …

Effective influencer marketing: A social identity perspective

S Farivar, F Wang - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2022 - Elsevier
Social networking in the form of online communities and social groups is a characteristic of
social media communication that has profound implications on the identity dynamics and …

Almost human? A comparative case study on the social media presence of virtual influencers

J Arsenyan, A Mirowska - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
As virtual agents become prevalent in many domains, virtual influencers have gone live on
social media platforms, integrating human networks and interacting with users. Building on …

Can AI artifacts influence human cognition? The effects of artificial autonomy in intelligent personal assistants

Q Hu, Y Lu, Z Pan, Y Gong, Z Yang - International Journal of Information …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies
provide various artificial autonomy features that allow intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) …

Fake news on social media: the impact on society

F Olan, U Jayawickrama, EO Arakpogun… - Information Systems …, 2024 - Springer
Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States
of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and …

Social support, source credibility, social influence, and impulsive purchase behavior in social commerce

X Hu, X Chen, RM Davison - International Journal of Electronic …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Social commerce (s-commerce)—the use of social media to support electronic
commerce—has become pervasive. This paper aims to investigate an important type of …

Followers' problematic engagement with influencers on social media: An attachment theory perspective

S Farivar, F Wang, O Turel - Computers in Human Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Following social media influencers is a common activity for social media users. As
influencers endeavour to engage followers and increase their power of influence for …

Combating fake news on social media with source ratings: The effects of user and expert reputation ratings

A Kim, PL Moravec, AR Dennis - Journal of Management …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
As a remedy against fake news on social media, we examine the effectiveness of three
different mechanisms for source ratings that can be applied to articles when they are initially …

Enhancing the role of flow experience in social media usage and its impact on shop**

H Hyun, T Thavisay, SH Lee - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2022 - Elsevier
Online retailers are eager to find the answers to the following questions: How relevant is
SNS usage to consumer shop** decisions? Is the information shared on SNS likely to …