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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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IMC, social media and UK fashion micro-organisations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the practical applicability of integrated marketing communications (IMC) to micro-organisations operating in the UK's fashion industry, focusing specifically on the use of online platforms.
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Distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: students' communication and collaboration and the role of social media
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the factors that impact communication and collaboration in a distance learning environment in and outside of the virtual classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of social media in this process.
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Examining online citizenship behaviours in social network sites: a social capital perspective
TL;DR: This study examines how the key characteristics of SNS in terms of the concept of customer value affect social capital development in an SNS context and explains that the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital have significant direct and indirect effects on the SNS citizenship behaviour.
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A review of enterprise social media: visualization of landscape and evolution
TL;DR: This review proposes an integrated research framework, which highlights major purposes, antecedents and consequences of E SM use in organizations and presents future research trends of ESM research.
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The Influence of Social Presence, Social Exchange and Feedback Features on SNS Continuous Use: The Facebook Context
TL;DR: The study suggests and empirically validates a research model where Feedback, Perceived Social Presence, Attitude, Enjoyment and Perceived Usefulness are hypothesized to explain intentions to continue to use an SNS.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah boyd,Nicole B. Ellison +1 more
TL;DR: This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright and which are likely to be copyrighted.
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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.