# XU, Yan

**Source**: https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/xu-yan-0
**Parent**: https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/digital-platform-design-and-strategy

XU, Yan

Professor, Associate Director of Center for Business Strategy and Innovation

Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management

[View Profile](https://isom.hkust.edu.hk/faculty-and-staff/directory/xuyan)

### Recent Activities

ZHANG, Nan Andy

WANG, Chong

KARAHANNA, Elena

[XU, Yan](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/xu-yan-0)

[The Concept of Privacy in Online Communities Today](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/05/concept-privacy-online-communities-today)

[Online Information](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/online-information)

[Internet Privacy](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/internet-privacy)

[E-commerce](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/e-commerce)

With the growth of social media and other online communities, online social interactions have become an important part of daily life. This has led to increasing concerns about online privacy in the context of e-commerce. On today’s Internet, privacy needs differ from those in traditional e-commerce due to their focus on interactions among online peers. In
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

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KARAHANNA, Elena

XU, Sean Xin

[XU, Yan](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/xu-yan-0)

ZHANG, Nan Andy

[Meeting Needs through Social Media](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/06/meeting-needs-through-social-media)

[Interpersonal Relationship](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/interpersonal-relationship)

[Online Information](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/online-information)

[Social Network](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-network)

Twitter has almost 200 million users. Facebook’s customer base is even bigger, approaching 3 billion. Yet despite the staggering popularity of social media applications, it remains unclear exactly why and how people use this technology. Taking a holistic view of social media use, HKUST’s Professor Yan Xu and co-researchers developed a pioneering theory-based
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[ [Digital Platform: Design and Strategy](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/digital-platform-design-and-strategy "Digital Platform: Design and Strategy") ]

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