Online purchasing continues to grow in size and has a significant impact on the commercial environment. This project explores the factors influencing internet purchases of goods.
. Introduction . 1 Problem statement Online purchasing continues to grow in size and has a significant impact on the commercial environment. This project explores the factors influencing internet purchases of goods. . 2 The relevant literatures Purchasing online can have many advantages over the old-fashioned way of doing things. The convenience is a primary motivation to consumers purchasing online. During the Christmas holiday season, more than half of the Internet purchasing done by America online Inc.'s members occurred after 10 pm, when most traditional stores are closed (Quick 1999). Many Internet users are expressing serious concern regarding the lack of security in online business environments. Research suggests that security is a critical factor in influencing the consumers' willingness to make purchase online (Brendon 2002). .3 The theoretical framework In this theoretical framework, the dependent variable is consumer purchasing on the Internet. There are five independent variables namely, security, price, convenience, brand loyalty and control. Firstly, the higher level of security exists over the Internet, then the greater number of consumer purchasing on the Internet, because consumers are not anxious about the risk through the online purchasing. Secondly, if consumers find price cheaper to purchase online financial service than traditional purchases,
ICT Report 3D
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Digital networks like the internet have extended State and Corporate control to unprecedented levels. Discuss
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Discuss the role of media studies in making sense of the political, economic and cultural meaning of everyday life.
Discuss the role of media studies in making sense of the political, economic and cultural meaning of everyday life. We live in an ever-changing environment, a world that spins on its axis far quicker than we can comprehend. The world spins and we follow in body but not in mind, we do not realise how far and fast we are moving. Our world is a chaotic entity. Amidst the incomprehensible vastness of the universe, there is one populated planet, housing millions of creatures, fighting and squabbling for land, for supremacy, for food and, for stimulation. We work to live and we live to...well, work. Yet without work our state of mind, not to mention our economy, would be even more chaotic and we, as a race, would be increasingly volatile toward each other. "I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room" (The Quotations Page, 2004). We would buzz like hornets in a nest, frustrated and restless. Yet like busy bees we work, day in day out, to support our families, loved ones and our needs, demands and ultimately our wants. That's right, haven't we heard the saying 'life is to be lived', we exist to basically entertain ourselves, to provide stimulation in an otherwise routine world. Media, being a combination of text, visual reporting and human influence among others, is one medium that we can rely on to provide such stimulus and
Digital Divide
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