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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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An Examination of Social Media Role in Entrepreneurial Intention among Accounting Students: A SEM Study
Essia Ries Ahmed,Noor Fareen Abdul Rahim,Tariq Tawfeeq Yousif Alabdullah,Mohammed Muneerali Thottoli +3 more
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The shadows know me: Exploring the dark side of social media in the healthcare field
TL;DR: In this paper, the dark side of social media in the field of healthcare management has been investigated through a common theoretical and conceptual framework to improve the understanding of emerging social and economic dynamics towards the paradigm provided by many studies on the dark sides of Web 2.0.
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A Confirmation Bias View on Social Media Induced Polarisation During Covid-19
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how manifestations of confirmation bias contributed to the development of echo chambers at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and identified four key crosscutting propositions emerging from the data that have implications for research and practice.
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Organizational technological opportunism and social media: The deployment of social media analytics to sense and respond to technological discontinuities
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of social media analytics in the activities and processes that make sense of the social media data to enhance the technological opportunism capability, defined as the organizational capability to sense and respond to technological changes.
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Online media and trust in government during crisis: The moderating role of sense of security
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used dual process theory from psychology to clarify the causal impact of online media on trust in government in the context of terrorism crisis and empirically tested the effect of the online media with micro-level empirical evidence.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
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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.
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The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology
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