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Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media
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In this article, the authors present a framework that defines social media by using seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups, and explain the implications that each block can have for how firms should engage with social media.About:
This article is published in Business Horizons.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 3073 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & User-generated content.read more
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Social value and content value in social media: Two paths to psychological well-being
TL;DR: A model that incorporates psychological well-being as the endogenous variable, interdependence self- construal and independent self-construal as exogenous variables, and social value, content value, social identity, self-esteem, and flow as mediating variables is developed.
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Use of Machine Learning to Detect Wildlife Product Promotion and Sales on Twitter.
TL;DR: Study results show that machine learning combined with supplement analysis approaches such as those utilized in this study have the potential to detect illegal content without the use of an existing training data set.
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Social Media: Exploring Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Antonina Bauman,Carol Lucy +1 more
TL;DR: The main purpose of this chapter is to review entrepreneurial opportunities presented by the social media as mentioned in this paper, however, there is more to social media than just online communication, creating value for customers, changing business models, and the environment in which a company operates are among those areas that are being overlooked by entrepreneurs.
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Athlete branding via social media: examining the factors influencing consumer engagement on Instagram
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the factors that influence athlete engagement on social media platforms and found that social media platform provides opportunities for athletes to promote their personal brands and attract engagement from consumers.
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Pictures, Protests and Politics: Mapping Twitter Images during South Africa’s Fees Must Fall Campaign
Tanja Bosch,Bruce Mutsvairo +1 more
TL;DR: News media have often been criticised for framing social protests in negative ways, particular through photojournalism as discussed by the authors, and while news photographs can shape the public's understanding of social and pol...
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah boyd,Nicole B. Ellison +1 more
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Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media
TL;DR: A classification of Social Media is provided which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds.
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The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine the concept of weak ties from social network research and the notion of complex knowledge to explain the role of weak links in sharing knowledge across organization subunits.
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The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology
Stephen P. Borgatti,Pacey Foster +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and analyzed the emerging network paradigm in organizational research and developed a set of dimensions along which network studies vary, including direction of causality, levels of analysis, explanatory goals, and explanatory mechanisms.