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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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Examining the self-reported advantages and disadvantages of socially networking about body image and eating disorders.
Patricia A. Cavazos-Rehg,Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft,Melissa J. Krauss,Nnenna Anako,Christine Xu,Erin Kasson,Shaina J. Costello,Denise E. Wilfley +7 more
TL;DR: With these findings, researchers, health practitioners, and social media administrators can devise ways to reduce harmful consequences of posting/following body-image/ED content on social media.
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Digital publics: Tracking and reaching them
TL;DR: This article proposed the concept of latent diffused publics (LDP) which combines the theoretical work of James Grunig and the linkages of Esman from the 1970s.
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"Guest editorial": Overtourism and the sharing economy – tourism cities at a crossroads
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of Fairbnb in today's sharing economy spectrum of services and operators, and the extent to which the initial ethical principles of the sharing economy have evolved over time.
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#BuyNothingDay: investigating consumer restraint using hybrid content analysis of Twitter data
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate motivations and human values of everyday consumers who participate in the annual day of consumption restraint known as Buy Nothing Day (BND), and demonstrate a hybrid content analysis method in which artificial intelligence and human contributions are used in the data analysis.
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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.