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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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Satisfying Public Relations: The Promise of Social Media in the UAE
TL;DR: The main research focus of this paper is how PR departments are utilizing social media to engage in advocacy work, and addresses perceptions of benefits, challenges, public acceptance, and future strategies of social media in relation to global SM as a whole.
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Meaning in life as a mediator between interpersonal alienation and smartphone addiction in the context of Covid-19: A three-wave longitudinal study
TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study was conducted to examine the relationship among interpersonal alienation, meaning in life and smartphone addiction in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic and found that university students' interpersonal alienation increased and the risk of smartphone addiction significantly decreased with the epidemic under control.
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Social media privacy concerns: trusting beliefs and risk beliefs
TL;DR: A research model that examines social media privacy concerns (SMPC) in relation to users’ trusting beliefs and risk beliefs showed that three of the six SMPC were negatively and significantly associated with users' trusting beliefs.
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Lesbian and gay expatriates use of social media to aid acculturation
Ruth McPhail,Ron James Fisher +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the unique social capital resource held by non-traditional expatriates through their use of social media to assist in global mobility and acculturation, and explored the issues surrounding self-orientated, others-oriented, perceptual and cultural toughness challenges for LG expatriate.
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Recruiting Gen Yers Through Social Media: Insights from the Italian Labor Market
Rita Bissola,Barbara Imperatori +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute in understanding how social media can better sustain employer branding and recruitment activities, especially considering the needs and expectations of talented young employees and professionals in the Italian context.
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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
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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.