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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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Evaluation of Social Media Utilization by Latino Adolescents: Implications for Mobile Health Interventions
TL;DR: Social media is ubiquitous in Latino adolescents’ lives and may be a powerful mode for public health intervention delivery.
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Social media celebrities and new world order. What drives purchasing behavior among social media followers?
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the impact of celebrities on their followers' purchase intention and the moderating influence of SMP usage on the relationships between celebrities and their followers.
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Digital humanities and digital social reading
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Online Reputation and Stress: Discovering the Dark Side of Social Media:
Faseeh Amin,Mohammad Furqan Khan +1 more
TL;DR: The research on social media has mostly focused on its utilitarian aspects for both businesses and individuals as mentioned in this paper, and with growing embedding of social media in our individual affairs, it is important to...
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The Effect of Social Media Culture and Knowledge Transfer on Performance
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of social media culture on knowledge transfer and knowledge transfer performance on work performance was analyzed. But the authors focused on the effect of knowledge transfer on work performances.
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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
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