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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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#IUseTwitterBecause: content analytic study of a trending topic in Twitter
TL;DR: A robust framework for assessing motivations to use Twitter was proposed and indicated that Turkish users engage with Twitter mostly for self-expression, escapism, and social interaction.
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Conspicuous political brand interactions on social network sites
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of the undesired social-self and visibility in predicting consumers' intention to like political brands and found that all users prefer to "like" inconspicuously.
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Social Media and Its Effects on Individuals and Social Systems
Natascha Zeitel-Bank,Ute Tat +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the possible effects of social media on both individuals and the society as a whole, and highlight the circumstances for responsible handling of Social Media. But, they do not consider the effect of the individual form of participating and the specific influence on the individual's own social behaviour.
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Employee use of public social media: theories, constructs and conceptual frameworks
TL;DR: A causal-chain framework for research exploration into employee usage of public social media platforms is proposed by systematically analysing the antecedent variables, mediators, moderators, and outcome variables used in 59 quantitative papers.
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The Lag-User Method
TL;DR: In this article, the Lag-User Method was developed to investigate laggards' role in the process of idea generation and new product development (NPD) and so enable firms to gain access to their insights.
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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.