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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.
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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.

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Bibliometrix analysis of information sharing in social media

TL;DR: A review study of research papers on social media and information sharing published between 2009 and 2020 was conducted as discussed by the authors , which identified the following characteristics: (1) the primary articles are based on information sharing through social media; (2) the main authors deal with information sharing in social media, (3) the newest topics related to information sharing are demographic characteristics, cognition, sentiment, healthcare, products and services recommendations, tourist recommendations, and COVID-19.
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Aprendizaje colaborativo con apoyo en TIC: concepto, metodología y recursos

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify theoretical, procedural and technolog-ical aspects associated with collaborative learning, including the ICTs, and make the following inferences: i) there is a need to stop deeming the ITCs as instrumental objects and start to take them as a gearing of techniques, resources and strategies for the group educative development; and ii) it is understood that the stu- dent's experience in CL occurs as an individual-to-collective transition and the interaction translates into an knowledge and practice exchange.
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Online and blended entrepreneurship education: a systematic review of applied educational technologies

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic analysis of research focusing on blended and online entrepreneurial learning and teaching is presented, which can be summarized into three categories: social media, serious games and Massive Open Online Courses.
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The role of social media, user generated platforms and crowd sourcing in the development of tourism destinations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the status and progress of scientific research and innovation in the tourism industry, with special reference to studies that have been conducted on tourism destinations and social media channels.
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The double-edged impact of social media on online trading: Opportunities, threats, and recommendations for organizations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that heavy social media users are more likely to engage in online trading but are largely affected by online herding behavior, and are four times more likely than blindly follow other traders.
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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

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

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.
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